Politics, power and policy transfer

Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

Academia, policy and politics.

In October 2003, I started a secondment from the London School of Economics (LSE), where I hold the Richard Titmuss Chair of Social Policy, to No 10 Downing Street, where I worked as a senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. I began working initially on a specific project: developing policies on extending user choice in public services, with particular reference to health care ...

Power Politics & Research: a Discourse Analysis of Health Research Policy

Social research and related policy involve more than the simple generation and use of knowledge and can be thought of as political exercises, laden with power relations and shaped according to the priorities of particular institutions and individuals. This paper explores the means by which one such area ‐ health research policy ‐ is shaped, enabled and constrained by such relations unpicking th...

Politics, Power, Poverty and Global Health: Systems and Frames

Striking disparities in access to healthcare and in health outcomes are major characteristics of health across the globe. This inequitable state of global health and how it could be improved has become a highly popularized field of academic study. In a series of articles in this journal the roles of power and politics in global health have been addressed in considerable detail. Three points are...