Public Accountability and Health Care Governance: Public Management Reforms Between Austerity and Democracy

233 Pages·2016·3.113 MB·English

by  Paola Mattei (eds.)

PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORMS BETWEEN
AUSTERITY AND DEMOCRACY
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY AND
HEALTH CARE GOVERNANCE
EDITED BY PAOLA MATTEI
Public Accountability and Health Care Governance

Paola Mattei
Editor
Public Accountability
and Health Care
Governance
Public Management Reforms Between
Austerity and Democracy
Editor
Paola Mattei
St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
Oxford , UK
ISBN 978-1-137-47298-4 ISBN 978-1-137-47299-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-47299-1
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C
ONTENTS
Public Management Reforms and Their Impact on Democratic
Processes 1
Paola Mattei
German Healthcare in Transition: Global Pressures,
Governance and Public Wellbeing 13
Patricia Hogwood
Hospital Planning in a Competitive Arena:
Sustaining or Suspending Market Forces? 37
Tanja Klenk
Marketization and Accountability: Lessons from
the Reforming Norwegian Healthcare System 65
Simon Neby
From Demigods in White to Normal Employees:
Employment Relations and New Incentive
Structures in German Hospitals 91
Maximiliane Wilkesmann
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vi CONTENTS
Accountability in Multilevel Health Care Services:
The Case of Norway 115
Haldor Byrkjefl ot, Tom Christensen, and Per Lægreid
Organ Transplant Policies and Cultural Worldviews 147
Paola Mattei
From “Major Decisions” to “Everyday Life”:
Direct Accountability to Clients 165
Thomas Schillemans, Hester van de Bovenkamp,
and Margo Trappenburg
Accountability and Shared Measurement
in Health Care: Examples from Israel 193
Yehonatan Almog, Bruce Rosen, and Jack Habib
Index 217
C
ONTRIBUTORS
Yehonatan   Almog S ystem-wide Impact and Measurement Unit, Myers-JDC-
Brookdale Institute , Jerusalem, Israel
Hester   van de Bovenkamp I nstitute of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus
University , Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Haldor   Byrkenfl ot D epartment of Sociology and Human Geography, University
of Oslo , Oslo, Norway
Tom   Christensen D epartment of Political Science, University of Oslo , Oslo,
Norway
Jack   Habib The Executive Director of the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute , Jerusalem,
Israel
Patricia   Hogwood D epartment of Politics and International Relations, University
of Westminster , Westminster, UK
Tanja   Klenk D epartment of Social Work and Social Welfare, University of Kassel,
Germany
Per   Laegreid D epartment of Administration and Organization Theory, U niversity
of Bergen , Bergen , Norway
Paola   Mattei Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, St Antony’s College,
University of Oxford , O xford, U K
Simon   Neby Uni Research, Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies , B ergen , N orway
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viii CONTRIBUTORS
Bruce   Rosen S mokler Center for Health Policy Research, Myers-JDC-Brookdale
Institute , Jerusalem, Israel
Thomas   S chillemans F aculty of Law, Economics, and Governance, Utrecht
University School of Governance , Utrecht, The Netherlands
Margo   Trappenburg F aculty of Law, Economics, and Governance, Utrecht
University School of Governance , Utrecht, The Netherlands
Maximiliane   W ilkesmann F aculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences,
TU Dortmund University , Dortmund, Germany
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IST OF IGURES
Chapter 5
Figure 1 Total number of hospitals and hospitals’ ownership
structures over time (compiled by the author) 94
Figure 2 Total number of hospitals and hospitals’ ownership
structures over time (compiled by the author) 101
Figure 3 Trend in hip replacement surgery, selected OECD
countries, 2000–2011 (or nearest year). 104
Figure 4 Attitudes among different generations of chief physicians
(approval rating; 4 = agree and 5 = strongly agree) 106
Figure 5 Number of physicians in hospitals without direct
employment relationship. 109
Chapter 8
Figure 1 Relative contribution of nine external stakeholders
to public standing and image of the organization 179
Figure 2 Relative contribution of nine external stakeholders
to “improving the quality of services” 181
Chapter 9
Figure1 From common indicators to shared measurement 196
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