CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Moise, Alexandru Daniel |
|---|---|
| Title | Health Politics in Hungary and Romania |
| Summary | Recurring economic crises, slower growth, changing demographics and accelerated globalization have put immense pressures for change on welfare systems. However, these systems appear remarkably resilient as governments employ (or delay) a diverse set of reforms. Given that governments shape policy, it is important to understand the politics of reform in order to understand welfare states. Additionally, it is important to extend our knowledge of welfare states beyond well established capitalist democracies in order to understand different mechanisms of change in social policy. This thesis aims to contribute to this understanding by examining the politics of health reform in Hungary and Romania. Process-tracing on a single policy dimension across two similar cases is employed in order to discern the mechanics of reforms. This thesis emphasizes the role of governments and social actors as key players in determining the nature and success of reforms. Political instability, minority governments, the presence of internal veto players and pressures exerted by outside veto players are found to be the main factors which explain the nature and the success or failure of reforms. The main mechanism is found to be the interaction between political actors seeking cost containment and health workers seeking to preserve the status quo. |
| Supervisor | Dorothee Bohle |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/moise_alexandru.pdf |
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