Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)

Regimes of Inequality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at scholars and students of political science and public health, this book explores why policy remedies proposed by center-left governments have failed to reduce inequality. Its focus is a forensic examination of the largely unsuccessful efforts of governments in England, France and Finland to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781009087766
• ISBN-10: 1009087762
• Artikelnr.: 62193082

Autorenporträt

Julia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Explaining resilient inequalities in health and wealth; 2. Theorizing
regimes of inequality: welfare, neoliberalism, and the reframing of a
social problem; 3. Health inequalities: the emergence of an international
consensus policy frame; 4. New Labour, the redistributive taboo, and
reframing inequality in England after the Black Report; 5. Inequality,
territory, austerity: health equity in France since the u-turn; 6. From
risk factors to social determinants: how the changing social democratic
welfare regime in Finland reframed health inequality; 7. In and out of the
Overton Window: how talking about health inequality made the problem harder
to solve; 8. Regimes of inequality; Appendix. Content analysis of
government and commissioned health inequality reports.