Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

Edited by Joan Costa-Font, Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Alberto Batinti, Assistant Professor of Economic Policy, La Sapienza University of Rome and Gilberto Turati, Professor of Public Finance, Department of Economics and Finance, School of Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
HEALTH SYSTEMS
1 An introduction to the Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems 2
Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati

PART II CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
2 Health and healthcare as a human right 12
Hiroaki Matsuura
3 Do democratic regimes exhibit ‘better’ health outcomes? 27
Alberto Batinti and Joan Costa-Font
4 Soviet communism and later-life health and health care 42
Joan Costa-Font and Anna Nicińska
5 Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages,
dilemmas, and solutions 57
Roger D. Congleton
6 The coordination in European Union healthcare after Covid-19 70
Marco Buso, Massimo Bordignon, Rosella Levaggi and Gilberto Turati
7 Efficiency and equity effects of healthcare decentralization: evidence
from Italy 85
Caterina Ferrario, Rosella Levaggi and Massimiliano Piacenza
8 Political economy of health care insurance expansion in Mexico 112
David G. Lugo-Palacios and Alejandro Sanders Villa
9 Weird health care for WEIRD societies? 130
Hartmut Kliemt

PART III POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL MARKETS AND
HEALTH CARE DECISIONS
10 Medical composition of cabinets and the health care system 147
Joan Costa-Font, Nicolas Marchi and Debra Winberg
11 Women politicians and public health 157
Sonia Bhalotra and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca
12 Community and civic participation effects on health and well-being 177
Luke Munford and Daniel Gray
13 Ideology and health spending 200
Bernd Theilen
14 Lobbying, health, and healthcare 213
Nathaniel Z. Counts and Vinu Ilakkuvan
15 Healthcare corruption 236
Martin McKee, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova
16 Provider power and healthcare systems 247
Mason Barnard, Irini Papanicolas and Peter Smith
17 Health effects of trade policy and corporate interest groups 270
Pepita Barlow
18 Institutional quality and health outcomes 292
Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana and Luigi Siciliani

PART IV THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE
FINANCING AND POLICY REFORMS
19 Towards a general political economy of private supplementary health insurance 319
Claudio Lucarelli and Mark Pauly
20 Political economy of public financing of health in low- and
middle-income countries 339
Sumit Mazumdar and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
21 Political economy of health system reform: evidence from Spain 370
Guillem López-Casasnovas
22 The pharmaceutical patent system and access to medicines 380
Valbona Muzaka

PART V POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH CARE DURING COVID-19
23 Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 397
Peter T. Leeson and Henry A. Thompson
24 Political preferences and nudging for healthcare: evidence from Covid
certificates 412
Mario Cesare Nurchis, Luca Salmasi and Gilberto Turati
25 Multilevel governance in the first wave of Covid-19 430
Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati

PART VI LESSONS FROM THE HANDBOOK
26 The political economy of health systems: research space, goals and lessons 447
Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati

Index 454