What is it about?
From 1990 to 2011, reforms in German health policy can be easily explained by a programmatic group, which emerged partly from the Enquete Commission around the 1990s and influenced German health policy throughout the subsequent years. The programmatic group included clearly identifiable actors, which are named in the article that is based on interviews with them, and put forward a clearly identifiable program called "competition in a solidaristic framework".
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Why is it important?
The article uses an innovative lens of programmatic groups / Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) as explanation for public policy change. It is important both for academics that aim at providing explanations for past reforms and for practitioners in shaping policy formulation.
Perspectives
The very first systematic application of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) to a German case provides everyone with the means and knowledge to apply it to other countries and other policy issues.
Johanna Hornung
Comparative Politics and Public Policy, TU Braunschweig
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This page is a summary of: The programmatic elite in German health policy: Collective action and sectoral history, Public Policy and Administration, September 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0952076718798887.
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