This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions to co-ordinate the system of public hospitals as a whole. Using a comparative structure, as well as original empirical data collected by the author, the book examines case studies on which little has so far been published for an international audience in English.

Uses original empirical data collected recently by the author and not yet been published elsewhere Highly-relevant and salient policy area Includes case studies being published for an international audience in English for the first time

Autorentext

Sorin Dan has worked as Policy Analyst at the OECD on public governance reform with countries such as Lithuania, Romania and Slovak Republic as well as the OECD more generally. He was previously a Doctoral Researcher at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium where he completed his doctoral thesis. While in Leuven he was part of the COCOPS project team, a major EU-funded international research project. His work on public administration and healthcare reform has appeared in different international journals.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Public Management Reform and Coordination.- Chapter 3. Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 4. Research Design.- Chapter 5. Coordination of Public Hospitals in Estonia.- Chapter 6. Coordination of Public Hospitals in Romania.- Chapter 7. Coordination of Public Hospitals in Norway.- Chapter 8. Discussion and Conclusions.