New Health Insurance Findings from Australian National University Reported (Policy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of…

New Health Insurance Findings from Australian National University Reported (Policy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of Australian health insurance policy change)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Current study results on Health Insurance have been published. According to news reporting originating from Canberra, Australia, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, "This article presents an institutionalist perspective on the relationship between policy failure and policy learning."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Australian National University, "It contributes both to our understanding of different patterns institutional change as well as the conditions for policy learning at the system-wide level.The first section elaborates the concept of policy failure in terms of type, value and timing. Next, how policy failure may trigger a process of deinstitutionalisation and in turn create conditions for subsequent policy learning is described."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "These contributions to theory are explored through selected evidence from the reform trajectory of Australian health insurance policy from the mid-1970s to late-1990s."

For more information on this research see: Policy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of Australian health insurance policy change. Policy and Politics, 2017;45(1):87-101. Policy and Politics can be contacted at: Policy Press, Univ Bristol, 4TH Fl, Beacons House, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1QU, England (see also Health Insurance).

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A. Kay, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.

Keywords for this news article include: Canberra, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Health Insurance, Australian National University.

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