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Understanding Policy Scandals in Historical Context: A Longer-Term Lens for Policy Analysis

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Brown, Patrick 
Flores, Rubén 
Alaszewski, Andy 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11510
Date Issued
January 2020
Date Available
27T12:06:19Z August 2020
Abstract
The emergence of and reaction to policy scandals has been usefully studied through comparative case studies. Far less attention has been devoted, however, to the study of such scandals in long-term historical context. With the aim of illuminating longer-term social processes which shape the likelihood that (health)care scandals emerge, we delineate three areas where such changes are visible: a) changing formats of social relations and emotions within and around care provision, and thereby understandings of and demands for compassionate care; b) heightened organisational and political sensitivity to failings; and c) changes in media reporting on healthcare failings, as well as in policy-makers' responsiveness to and manipulation of media. We consider the 2013 Mid Staffordshire scandal in the English National Health Service and the extant policy literature on this scandal to help illuminate the added analytical value of our long-term approach. In the final section we explore the interconnection of the three processes and how longer-term approaches open up new vistas for policy analysis.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal
Journal of Social Policy
Volume
49
Issue
1
Start Page
125
End Page
143
Copyright (Published Version)
2019 Cambridge University Press
Keywords
  • Generic health releva...

DOI
10.1017/S004727941900014X
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0047-2794
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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