Presenting a collection of field-defining published works, both classical and contemporary, these four volumes define health systems, consider tensions in health policy, look at health systems comparatively, and examine the politics of health system reform.

VOLUME 1: DEFINING HEALTH SYSTEMS - PATH DEPENDENCE AND POLICY EMERGENCE Path dependence and system determinants Ideology, Medical Technology, and Health Care Organization in Modern Nations - David Mechanic Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A comparative analysis of health care - Ellen Immergut The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance: Structure and sequence in the development of British, Canadian, and U.S. medical policy - Jacob Hacker Nothing Succeeds Like the Right Kind of Failure: Postwar national health insurance in Canada and the United States - Antonia Maioni Maternal Health Care Policy: Britain and the United States - Sue Tolleson-Rinehart Tracing the evolution of health policy processes Understanding Social Insurance: Fairness, affordability, and the ′modernization′ of Social Security and Medicare - Theodore Marmor and Jerry Mashaw The Political Economy of Medicare - Bruce Vladeck A Political History of Medicare and Prescription Drug Coverage - Thomas Oliver, Philip Lee and Helene Lipton The Lessons of Success: Revisiting the Medicare story - David Blumenthal and James Morone Regulating health policy Protection without Capture: Product approval by a politically responsive, learning regulator - Daniel Carpenter State Legislative Staff Influence in Health Policy Making - Carol Weisert and William Weissert Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The case of tobacco control - Peter Jacobson and Kenneth Warner Policy experimentation States as Policy Laboratories: Emulating success in the Children′s Health Insurance Program - Craig Volden The Curious Conversion of Empire Blue Cross - James Robinson VOLUME 2: TENSIONS IN HEALTH POLICY: ETHICS, INTERESTS, AND THE PUBLIC Ethics, Justice, Governance, Rights, and Health Care The Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance - Deborah Stone Enemies of the People: The moral dimension of public health - James Morone Health as Citizenship Narrative - Candace Johnson Civil Wars Kill and Maim People Long After the Shooting Stops - Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Paul Huth and Bruce Russett AIDS and the American Health Polity: The history and prospects of a crisis of authority - Daniel Fox Equity and Population Health: Toward a broader bioethics agenda - Norman Daniels Health, Equity, and Reproductive Risks in the Workplace - Cynthia Daniels, Maureen Paul and Robert Rosofsky Preserving Community in Health Care - Ezekiel Emanuel and Linda Emanuel Public Opinion, Electoral Conflict, and the Representation of Interests Political Preference Formation: Competition, deliberation, and the (ir)relevance of framing effects - Jamie Druckman Does Policy Debate Reduce Information Effects in Public Opinion?: Analyzing the evolution of public opinion on health care - Ryan Claassen and Benjamin Highton The Importance of Social and Political Context: The case of AIDS activism - M. Kent Jennings and Ellen Ann Andersen "Culture of Life" Politics at the Bedside: The case of Terri Schiavo - George Annas The Translation of Interests into Policy Brokering Health Policy: Coalitions, Parties, and Interest Group Influence - Michael Heaney Buying Expertise: Campaign contributions and attention to policy analysis in Congressional committees - Kevin Esterling Reconsidering the Counter-Mobilization Hypothesis: Health policy lobbying in the American States - David Lowery, Virginia Gray, Jennifer Wolak, Erik Godwin and Whitt Kilburn The Politics of Obesity: A current assessment and look ahead - Rogan Kersh The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors - Schlesinger Mark and Lau Richard VOLUME 3: HEALTH SYSTEMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Health policy, divergence, and convergence in systems The Challenge of Comparative Health Policy for Political Science - David Falcone Setting Health Priorities across Nations: More convergence than divergence? - Blank Robert and Viola Burau Five Metaphors about Global-Health Policy - David Stuckler and Martin McKee Exceptionalism is the Rule?: U.S. health policy innovation and cross-national learning - Lawrence Brown Health Policy and the Political Marketplace How Does Private Finance Affect Public Health Care Systems?: Marshaling the evidence from OECD nations - Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Colleen Flood and Mark Stabile Market Failure and the Failure of Discourse: Facing up to the power of sellers - Bruce Vladeck and Thomas Rice Health Equity in Transition from Planned to Market Economy in China - Jun Gao, Juncheng Qian, Shenglan Tang, Bo Eriksson and Erik Blas The Enactment of National Health Insurance: A Boolean analysis of twenty advanced industrial countries - Charles Blake and Jessica Adolino Change and adaptation The Politics of Modernization: Britain′s National Health Service in the 1980s - Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein Universal Health Care: Lessons from the British experience - Donald Light Has Solidarity Survived?: A comparative analysis of the effect of social health insurance reform in four European countries - Hans Maarse and Aggie Paulus An Experiment with Regulated Competition and Individual Mandates for Universal Health Care: The new Dutch health insurance system - Pauline Rosenau and Christiaan Lako Political culture and variance in health policy Political Cultures, Health Systems and Health Policy - Sara Atkinson Effect of Democracy on Health: Ecological study - Álvaro Franco, Carlos Álvarez-Dardet and Maria Teresa Ruiz Generating Political Priority for Maternal Mortality Reduction in 5 Developing Countries - Jeremy Shiffman Proximal, Distal, and the Politics of Causation: What′s level got to do with it? - Nancy Krieger VOLUME FOUR: THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM System imperatives as brakes to or catalysts of change Political Influence in the 1990s: From iron triangles to policy networks - Mark Peterson Nature or Nurture?: Sources of firm preference for national health reform - Cathie Jo Martin Health Reform Impasse: The politics of American ambivalence toward government - Lawrence Jacobs Locationg the Issue Public: The multi-dimensional nature of engagement with health care reform - Vincent Price, Clarrissa David, Brian Goldthorps, Marci McCoy Roth and Joseph Capella Translating Ideas into Actions: Entrepreneurial leadership in state health care reforms - Thomas Oliver and Pamela Paul-Shaheen Health Reform Interrupted: The unraveling of the Oregon Health Plan - Jonathan Oberlander Social Movements as Catalysts for Policy Change: The case of smoking and guns - Constance Nathanson Determining the public good Between Welfare Medicine and Mainstream Entitlement: Medicaid at a political crossroads - Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik Uses and Abuses of Long-Term Medicare Cost Estimates - Joseph White Leading the Health Policy Orchestra: The need for an intergovernmental partnership - Michael Sparer