Calum Paton: 2 books
New Labour's State of Health
Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In this timely and unique work, Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of problems in the National Health Service. Debates from political theory, political economy and public administration are used to examine health...
The Politics of Health Policy Reform in the UK
England’s Permanent Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book explains the politics of thirty years of ‘market reform’ in the English NHS, with the rest of the UK a counter-factual. Paton shows how each subsequent reform has been shaped by the confusion left by the previous reform. The long-term ideology has been anti-statist but policy-making...