The European Union's governance of health care and the welfare modernization agenda

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hervey, Tamara K.
• 署名单位: University of Sheffield
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00028.x
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 103-120
• 关键词: world-bank; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; COORDINATION; EU; POLICY; MODEL

摘要

In the face of permanent welfare austerity, the European Union (EU) is increasingly involved in the governance of health care through various new governance tools. This development coincides with a growing interest in modernization of welfare, including health care. One of the fundamental critiques of new governance in the EU context concerns the (perceived) inability of new governance to protect the social against the market in Europe's constitutional settlement. Using multi-level governance and constructivist approaches, this article considers whether the EU's governance of health care via the Open Method of Coordination advances a neo-liberal agenda of health care modernization.