Public Accountability and Health Care Governance

Paola Mattei is Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy, and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. Her books include Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management? (2009); University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times (2014); and Secular institutions, Islam and Education Policy (2016).

• Chapter 1. German  Healthcare  in  Transition:  Global  Pressures,  Governance, and  Public  Wellbeing; Patricia  Hogwood.– Chapter 2. Realigning  Hospital  Planning  in  Germany:  Promoting  or Curbing Market  Competition?; Tanja  Klenk.– Chapter 3. Marketization and Accountability: Lessons from the Reforming Norwegian Health Care System; Simon Neby.– Chapter 4. From  Demi-Gods  in  White  to  Normal  Employees:  Re-evaluating Physicians’  Employment  and  New  Incentive  Structures  in  German Hospitals; Maximiliane  Wilkesmann.– Chapter 5. Accountability in Multilevel Health Care Services: The Case of Norway; Haldo Byrkjeflot, Tom Christensen, Per Laegreid.– Chapter 6. Organ  Transplant  Policies and Cultural Worldviews; Paola Mattei.– Chapter 7. From  'Major  Decisions'  to  'Everyday  Quality':  Direct Accountability  to  Hospital  Clients  in  the  Netherlands; Thomas Schillemans,  Hester  van  de  Bovenkamp,  and  Margo  Trappenburg.– Chapter 8. Accountability  and  Shared  Measurement  in  the  Israeli  Health Care  System; Yehonatan  Almog,  Bruce  Rosen,  and  Jack  Habib.