Diffuse anxieties, deprived entrepreneurs: Commission reform and middle management

Economists, policy entrepreneurs, and health care reform.

Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a "magic bullet" for doing so. They also would have emphasized the distortive costs of subsidies and taxes necessary to reach universal cover...

Measuring Management Reform: the Case of the Kinnock Reforms in the European Commission

Following the resignation crisis of 1999, the European Commission embarked on an ambitious programme of management reform in 2000. In 2003 the reform Progress Review claimed that it had been substantially implemented. From the body of literature which has developed examining the theory and practice of public management reform under different conditions, this paper analyses these claims. Using m...

The Middle Class and National Health Reform

With the recent flurry of proposals for universal health insurance, including a new plan submitted on June 5 by Majority Leader George Mitchell on behalf of the Senate Democratic leadership, a struggle that began three-quarters of a century ago in the United States entered another phase. Four times-in the Progressive Era, during the New Deal, under President Truman, and again in the 1970s-refon...

Arias, anxieties and epidemics.

Deployment anxieties

Going off to war may stir up a wide range of intense feelings, including anxiety, excitement, depression, pride, and anticipation of what is to come. While a certain amount of anxiety is expected for most people, in some cases, anxiety can become overwhelming and interfere with your ability to function. Fortunately, there are various resources for members of the armed forces and a variety of po...