Learning Objectives

  1. What do policy outcomes tell us about who has effective representation and power in a political system?
     
  2. Why do states intervene in the market via social, health, and environmental policies?
     
  3. Why have many governments pursued significant reforms to welfare states in the era of globalization?
     
  4. Why have states found it so difficult to reform health policy and control costs?
     
  5. Where and why did more effective welfare and health systems emerge, and can the most effective ones be replicated in other countries?