Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 35:4

Beyond Path Dependency: Explaining Health Care System Change–Mirella Cacace and Lorraine Frisina

Explaining Health Care System Change: Problem Pressure and the Emergence of "Hybrid" Health Care Systems–Achim Schmid, Mirella Cacace, Ralf Götze, and Heinz Rothgang

Why Institutions Are Not the Only Thing That Matters: Twenty-five Years of Health Care Reform in New Zealand–Peter Starke

Programmatic Actors and the Transformation of European Health Care States–Patrick Hassenteufel, Marc Smyrl, William Genieys, and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes

Health Care System Change and the Cross-Border Transfer of Ideas: Influence of the Dutch Model on the 2007 German Health Reform–Simone Leiber, Stefan Greß, and Maral-Sonja Manouguian

The New Institutionalist Approaches to Health Care Reform: Lessons from Reform Experiences in Central Europe–Michał Sitek

Punctuated Equilibrium and Path Dependency in Coexistence: The Israeli Health System and Theories of Change–Paula Feder-Bubis and David Chinitz

Policy Change and Health Care Research–Daniel Béland

Pedestrian Paths: Why Path-Dependence Theory Leaves Health Policy Analysis Lost in Space–Lawrence D. Brown

The Logic of Policy Change: Structure and Agency in Political Life–David Wilsford

Commentary

Path Dependency: A Dialogue–David Wilsford and Lawrence D. Brown

Book Reviews

Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care–David Wilsford

Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman, and Kieke G. H. Okma, eds. Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. 353 pp. $55.00 paper.

Books Received

Contributors