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Aimed at scholars and students of political science and public health, this book explores why policy remedies proposed by center-left governments have failed to reduce inequality. Its focus is a forensic examination of the largely unsuccessful efforts of governments in England, France and Finland to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health.
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Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political backlash and the transformation of European party systems. Most attempts to explain the rise of inequality in political science take a far too narrow approach, considering only economic inequality and failing to recognize how multiple manifestations of inequality combine to reinforce each other and the underlying political features of advanced welfare states. Combining training in public health with a background in political science, Julia Lynch brings a unique perspective to debates about inequality in political science and to public health thinking about the causes of and remedies for health inequalities. Based on case studies of efforts to reduce health inequalities in England, France and Finland, Lynch argues that inequality persists because political leaders chose to frame the issue of inequality in ways that made it harder to solve.
Author Biography
Julia Lynch is a professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, an editor of Socio-Economic Review, and serves as an expert advisor to the World Health Organization. She is the author of Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children (2006).
Table of Contents
1. Explaining resilient inequalities in health and wealth; 2. Theorizing regimes of inequality: welfare, neoliberalism, and the reframing of a social problem; 3. Health inequalities: the emergence of an international consensus policy frame; 4. New Labour, the redistributive taboo, and reframing inequality in England after the Black Report; 5. Inequality, territory, austerity: health equity in France since the u-turn; 6. From risk factors to social determinants: how the changing social democratic welfare regime in Finland reframed health inequality; 7. In and out of the Overton Window: how talking about health inequality made the problem harder to solve; 8. Regimes of inequality; Appendix. Content analysis of government and commissioned health inequality reports.
Review
'This book provides a much-needed critical assessment of widespread, but largely unsuccessful, efforts to tackle health inequalities. It should cause those involved in developing policy responses to health inequalities, as well as those trying to influence these responses, to reflect on what they are proposing and why. As Lynch concludes, the policy levers for tackling inequality are clear; the question is whether policymakers are bold enough to use them.' Katherine Smith, University of Strathclyde'An insightful and novel analysis of the evolution of health inequalities policies in Europe from the leading political scientist in the field. An important read for the global public health community.' Clare Bambra, Newcastle University'This book is a milestone in research on why public policy has failed to reduce health inequalities. Many researchers now lay claim to political economy perspectives on this topic; Professor Lynch is one of the few who live up to the claim. Using analytical tools of political science that are often neglected by academic followers of fashion, she examines multiple case studies based on a sophisticated understanding of the evidence base that connects health inequalities with their economic substrates. A must-read for all scholars, practitioners and advocates concerned with this topic.' Ted Schrecker, Newcastle University'Lynch's book brings political science to a field of public health advocacy and policy that desperately needs it, showing the health inequalities world their existential challenge while bringing a central concern of the last three years of social policy into debates about inequality and politics that somehow missed it. Nobody will fail to learn from this book. Nobody will escape being challenged by it. And if there is such a person, they can still learn about how to write clearly across countries, disciplines, and ideas. Inequality is a focus of political scientists and economists today, but politically engaged health researchers got there thirty years ago. Lynch's book chronicles the effort to make health inequalities a lever to change politics. Their failures, and occasional successes, should shape our thinking about how to put inequalities onto political agendas.' Scott Greer, University of Michigan'Julia Lynch has written an extremely clever and timely book … Building on a formidable scholarly profile, she provides an original and often brilliant account of how health and wealth are not only closely related in modern democracies, but constitute distinct regimes and patterns of inequality across these states … Regimes of Inequality is a superbly written and cogently argued book which will rapidly become required reading for scholars of comparative politics.' Desmond King, University of Oxford'In this eloquent and meticulously researched book, Julia Lynch shows that health outcomes in advanced countries are inextricably linked to broader patterns of social and economic inequity. Equally important, she demonstrates that these patterns are not inexorable products of impersonal economic forces, but rather stem from political choices. For Lynch, then, the pathologies of health inequality are not fundamentally economic or physiological, but political. A deeply impressive achievement that revamps our understanding of the relationship between health and wealth and the implications of this relationship for capitalism and democracy.' Mark Vail, Tulane University'While inequalities are so prominent in the political and academic agenda, very few books are able to trace the politics of inequalities as this book does. Lynch takes an original and definitively convincing approach to show how studying the policy-making surrounding health inequalities provides us with an understanding of how and why inequalities have increased so much since the 1980s.' Bruno Palier, Centre d'études européennes'Lynch's splendid book has effectively rewritten much of the literature on the welfare politics of advanced industrial democracies and reminds us that the contemporary story of rising and politically disruptive inequalities is one that we have collectively written for ourselves and could, with the right admixture of courage and political will, rewrite in turn.' Mark I. Vail, EuropeNow'… I want to commend Lynch's ambition to think of politics in terms of linkages between different types of inequalities … I am more impressed by the cross-national similarities that her careful process tracing uncovers …' Jonas Pontusson, Perspectives on Politics
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'This book provides a much-needed critical assessment of widespread, but largely unsuccessful, efforts to tackle health inequalities. It should cause those involved in developing policy responses to health inequalities, as well as those trying to influence these responses, to reflect on what they are proposing and why. As Lynch concludes, the policy levers for tackling inequality are clear; the question is whether policymakers are bold enough to use them.' Katherine Smith, University of Strathclyde
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Why can't politicians seem to make policies that will reduce social inequality, even when they acknowledge that inequality is harmful?
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Aimed at scholars and students of political science and public health, this book explores why policy remedies proposed by center-left governments have failed to reduce inequality. Its focus is a forensic examination of the largely unsuccessful efforts of governments in England, France and Finland to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health.
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Aimed at scholars and students of political science and public health, this book explores why policy remedies proposed by center-left governments have failed to reduce inequality. Its focus is a forensic examination of the largely unsuccessful efforts of governments in England, France and Finland to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health.
Details ISBN1107001684 Author Julia Lynch Pages 300 Publisher Cambridge University Press ISBN-10 1107001684 ISBN-13 9781107001688 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle The Political Economy of Health and Wealth Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation University of Pennsylvania DEWEY 362.1086942 Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-01-02 Short Title Regimes of Inequality Language English UK Release Date 2020-01-02 AU Release Date 2020-01-02 NZ Release Date 2020-01-02 Alternative 9781009087766 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 11 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this
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