Governmental authorities of wealthy developed nations differ in their professed commitments and activity related to the provision of the prerequisites of health through public policy action. Part 1 of this article showed how nations identified as social democratic or liberal welfare states were those where such commitments are present. Nations identified as conservative or Latin welfare states ...

A model is developed which allows us to examine the welfare effects of alternative methods of financing access to higher education. Under an extreme specification of the social welfare function, it is shown that it does not matter whether higher education is financed privately or through the exchequer. Under a more general specification of the social welfare function, conditions may be derived ...

Social Determinants of Health Research Centre, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Umeå International School of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå , Sweden. Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Umeå , Sweden. Social Determinants of Health Research Centre, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitati...

Using data for welfare recipients who left the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program during 1996 in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), Ohio, the authors compare the determinants of labor market outcomes across three classes of housing assistance: those who receive a certificate or voucher, those who reside in a traditional public housing project, and those who reside in a Section 8 housing ...

Why do we often want things we do not need, and need things we do not want? This paper reviews the very core process of human psyche and the associated biases that make us what we are not: Homo economicus. It also proposes the many ways public policies could be redesigned – based on the recent findings in behavioural economics – in order to change the way people behave in an optimal way so that...

Public-Private Partnerships have emerged as one of the most common models for generating private investment in infrastructure. However, there is still significant debate surrounding which factors drive P3 project results. While many P3 deals have proven to be a success and generated numerous benefits, others have resulted in failure and bankruptcy. This paper analyzes one such case, the 2006 In...

In an era of time-limited public assistance, policymakers and politicians frequently express the hope that a stronger private child support system can replace income that has, in the past, been provided to low-income single parents through the public welfare system. At the same time, some critics fault the welfare system for not allowing parents to combine public assistance with private child s...

Change and Implementation in a Social Services Department by Stuart Dennis Williams This work is an examination of contemporary public policy implementation. It seeks to isolate those features which need to be incorporated into implementation theory to assist in the analysis of the implementation of public policy The "new right" ideology requires that a particular organisational form be adopted...