Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth

ISBN-13: 9781009087766 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str.

Julia Lynch

Opis

Why can't politicians seem to make policies that will reduce social inequality, even when they acknowledge that inequality is harmful?

Recenzje

'… I want to commend Lynch's ambition to think of politics in terms of linkages between different types of inequalities … I am more impressed by the cross-national similarities that her careful process tracing uncovers …' Jonas Pontusson, Perspectives on Politics

Spis treści

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.