Health care systems reforms since the 80s.
Managerialism and value change in the public sector.
Essay (max 600 words): What are the main threads of the health care reforms carried out over the turn of the century? What can we learn from them?
Required reading:
Docteur, E.; Oxley, H. 2003. Health-care systems: Lessons from the reform experience. Paris: OECD, pp. 7-50. (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/53/22364122.pdf)
Optional readings:
Ferlie, E. et al. 1996. (eds.) The new public management in action. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1, pp.1-29.
Lane, J.E. 2000. New Public Management, London: Routledge, pp.1-15
Le Grand, J.; Bartlett, W. 1993. (eds). Quasi-markets and social policy. London: Macmillan. Ch 2-4, pp. 13-92.
Paris, V., M. Devaux and L. Wei. 2010, “Health Systems Institutional Characteristics: A Survey of 29 OECD Countries”, OECD Health Working Papers, No. 50, OECD Publishing. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5kmfxfq9qbnr-en)
Pollitt, C. 1993. Managerialism and the public services. Oxford: Blackwell. 2nd edition, pp.1-27.
