Ideology and health spending

Bernd Theilen

Chapter 13 in Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, 2023, pp 200-212 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the political demand for health care and is a review piece on the role of ideology on healthcare spending and political electoral cycle in health spending. Ideology (partisanship) matter and there is no convergence towards a single platform which is characteristic of the median voter. This makes for policy platforms that can be distinguished in left-right wing government and heterogenous trade-off between spending and inflation. The chapter discusses additional methodological issues in analyzing the (causal) effect of changes in government ideology on HCE, then examines the empirical literature, based on international comparisons, decentralized economies and single-country studies.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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