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Ideology and health spending

In: Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

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  • Bernd Theilen

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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.

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  • Bernd Theilen, 2023. "Ideology and health spending," Chapters, in: Joan Costa-Font & Alberto Batinti & Gilberto Turati (ed.), Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, chapter 13, pages 200-212, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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