Although choice may be seen as an end in itself, the papers included in this special issue of <italic>Health Economics, Policy and Law</italic>, examine choice policies in European systems of health care, which aim to be effective instruments for ameliorating the systemic pressures from the iron triangle of...

This article presents a cross-national analytical framework for understanding current attempts to reform medical governance – in particular, those by third parties to control the practice of medicine. The framework pays particular attention to the ways in which institutions shape policy...