When Europa meets Bismarck

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Publication Date

28 November 2016

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978-2-8004-1611-3

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Main content page count : 240

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1611

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160 x 240 x 15 cm

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397 grams

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Publication Date

03 May 2019

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978-2-8004-1666-3

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Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

1.1 Case Selection and Structure of the Book
1.2 Institutional Regimes and Agency in a Bismarckian Healthcare System
      1.2.1 Building Welfare Institutions and Healthcare Systems
      1.2.2 Welfare States as Institutional Regimes
      1.2.3 Bismarckian Welfare Regimes and Healthcare Systems
      1.2.4 Actors' Interests in a Bismarckian Healthcare Systems
1.3 National Actors’ Usages of Europe

2. Dynamics in the Austrian Healthcare System: History, Governance, Funding, and Provision

2.1 The Historical Development of the Austrian Welfare State and Healthcare System
      2.1.1 The Creation of Social Insurance under the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1880s-1918)
      2.1.2 Social Insurance and Change(s) of the Political Regime (1918-1945)
               2.1.2.1 The First Republic (1918-1934)
               2.1.2.2 The Corporative State (Ständestaat) and Nazi Occupation (1934-1945)
      2.1.3 Consolidation of the Welfare State in the Second Republic (1945-1980s)
               2.1.3.1 Political Consolidation and the Role of Political Parties
               2.1.3.2 Social Partnership
               2.1.3.3 The General Social Security Act: Centralisation and Expansion
                           of the Austrian Welfare State
               2.1.3.4 The Welfare State and the Kreisky Era (1970-1983)
               2.1.3.5 15a Agreements: Cooperative Federalism in Healthcare since the 1970s
      2.1.4 Austria and Initial Reforms of the Welfare State (1983-1995)
      2.1.5 Adaptations to Europe and Welfare State Reforms (1995-1999)
               2.1.5.1 EU Membership and Welfare State Reforms
               2.1.5.2 Europeanization Effects
      2.1.6 Austerity and Reforms of the Welfare State during the 2000s
      2.1.7 Interim Conclusion: the Different Phases of Welfare State Development
2.2 Austrian Healthcare Governance: a Complex and Fragmented System
      2.2.1 Main Actors in Healthcare Governance
      2.2.2 Inert Structures and Practices: Path-dependent Governance Reforms
2.3 The Financing Structure of Austrian Healthcare
      2.3.1 Financial Flows and Actors’ Interests in the Healthcare System
      2.3.2 The Financial Interplay between the National and the Regional
                Level in Inpatient Care
2.4 The Provision of Healthcare in Austria
      2.4.1 The Structure of Healthcare Provision
      2.4.2 Interim Conclusion: Institutional Dynamics, Actors’ Practices and
               Cross-border Healthcare

3. European Integration and Cross-border Healthcare

3.1 European Limits to Member States’ Social Sovereignty
3.2 European Integration and Healthcare
3.3 The EU as a Quasi-Federal Opportunity Structure in Healthcare
3.4 Cross-border Patient Mobility in Austria

4. Usages of Europe in the Austrian Healthcare System

4.1 Challenging Boundaries? Cross-border Hospital Collaboration and Regional Experiences
      4.1.1 Cross-border Collaboration between Austria and Germany
      4.1.2 Cross-border Collaboration between Austria and the Czech Republic
      4.1.3 Lower Austrian Usages of Europe at European Level
      4.1.4 Cross-border Healthcare: More of a Burden than an Opportunity for Regions?
      4.1.5 Discussion: Regional Usages of Europe and Cross-border Healthcare
4.2 Usages of Europe by Corporate Actors
      4.2.1 Payers: Perception and Management of Cross-border Healthcare
      4.2.2 Payers’ Usages of Europe
      4.2.3 Providers: the Medical Profession and Cross-border Healthcare
      4.2.4 Providers’ Usages of Europe at National and European Level
      4.2.5 Discussion: Usages of Europe by Corporate Actors
4.3 Interim Conclusion: Usages of Europe and National Boundaries

5. Conclusion

References
Primary Sources
        Official and Public Documents
        Newspaper Articles
Secondary Sources
        Analytical Reports, Working Papers, Conference Papers
        Articles
        Books and Book Chapters
List of interviews

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