1. Analysing health policy and politics -- 2. Institutions and health systems: the circuitry of health policy -- 3. Governance: interactions and health politics -- 4. Power and influence: networks and health politics -- 5. Professions: expertise and authority in health policy -- 6. Ideas: paradigms and discourses in health policy -- 7. Comparing relationships: the political authority of medicine and nursing -- 8. Managed networks in action: local partnerships for health -- 9. Shaping the health policy agenda: networks and policy issues -- 10. Networks, ideas, and power
Summary
Throughout, the focus is health policy in Western liberal democracies. This empirical research included is centred on Australia, but comparative analyses with other countries especially the UK and Netherlands are included
