Regimes of Inequality - The Political Economy of Health and Wealth

List of contents

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.

About the author

Julia Lynch is a professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, an editor of Socio-Economic Review, and serves as an expert advisor to the World Health Organization. She is the author of Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (2006).

Product details

• Authors: Julia Lynch, Julia (University of Pennsylvania) Lynch, Lynch Julia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781107001688
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00168-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Medizin, allgemein, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Politics / Current Events, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Health systems & services, Health systems and services