Federalism and Decentralization in European Health and Social Care

1. Health System Federalism and Decentralization: What Is It, Why Does It Happen, and What Does It Do?
Joan Costa-Font, Scott L. Greer

Part I. Background

2. Territory and Health: Perspectives from Economics and Political Science
Joan Costa-Font, Scott L. Greer

Part II. Cross-Country Evidence in Tax-Funded Health Systems

3. The Italian Servizio Sanitario Nazionale: A Renewing Tale of Lost Promises
Gilberto Turati

4. Decentralization and the Spanish Health System: Soft Budget Constraint Modernization?
Joan Costa-Font

5. The Rise and Fall of Territory in UK Health Politics
Scott L. Greer

6. From Centralization to Decentralization, and Back: Norwegian Health Care in a Nordic Perspective
Jon Magnussen, Pål E. Martinussen

Part III. Cross-Country Evidence in Social Insurance Systems

7. Decentralization in Health and Social Care in Poland: Does Resource Allocation Matter?
Katarzyna A. Kuć-Czajkowska, Małgorzata Rabczewska

8. Federalism in Health and Social Care in Austria
Birgit Trukeschitz, Ulrike Schneider, Thomas Czypionka

9. Federalism and Decentralization in German Health and Social Care Policy
Margitta Mätzke

10. Politiques de Santé: The Territorial Politics of French Health Policy
David K. Jones

11. Devolution, Nationalism, and the Limits of Social Solidarity: The Federalization of Health Policy in Belgium
Janet Laible

12. Federalism in Health and Social Care in Switzerland
Berit C. Gerritzen, Gebhard Kirchgässner

13. Conclusions
Joan Costa-Font, Scott L. Greer

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Social Policy, European Politics, European Union Politics, Politics of the Welfare State, Political Science