Healthcare reform has been a constant phenomenon for the last two decades, regardless of being Bismarckian or Beveridgean. The launch of new reforms has increased in pace to a point that was defined, in a recent BMJ article on the UK National Health Service, as ‘constant redisorganisation’. Most of the policy analysis literature on healthcare reforms has been of Anglo-American origin. Consequen...

© Policy Press 2015. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Policy & Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Sarto, F, Veronesi, G, Kirkpatrick, I and Cuccurullo, C (2015) Exploring Regionalism in Public Management Reforms: The Case of the Italian Hospital Sector. Policy and Politics, is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/0305...

BACKGROUND The Australian Private Health Insurance Incentive (PHII) policy reforms implemented in 1997-2000 increased PHI membership in Australia by 50%. Given the higher rate of obstetric interventions in privately insured patients, the reforms may have led to an increase in surgical deliveries and deliveries with longer hospital stays. We aimed to investigate the effect of the PHII policy int...

Over the past three decades, educational reforms have played a major role in local, state, and federal policy debates. Several factors drive the push for reforms: U.S. students have not performed as well on science and math tests as students in other industrial countries. Low-income and minority students lag significantly behind other students on most measures of academic achievement. The priva...

Research on implementation around the world indicates that many educational reforms designed to improve the quality of schooling have been more rhetorical than substantive in their impact on the organisation of schools and classrooms (Weiler, 1998; Fullan, 1991; Snyder, Bolin and Zumwalt, 1992). Schools and classrooms do change, but the extent and direction of change is not always consistent wi...

The objectives of this paper are to review the monetary and financial sector reforms in India, identify the emerging issues and explore the prospects for further reform. The first part is devoted to a brief background on the need for reforms taken up in 1991-92. The second part is devoted to the institutional aspects of the reform. Issues relating to ownership, competition and regulation in the...

This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond estimating assorted mean impacts to estimate distributions of outcomes generated by different policies and to determine how those policies shift persons across the distributions of potential outcomes produced by them....