SWD-Schlagwörter: Interessenverband, Gesundheit, Gesundheitspolitik, Lobbyismus, Regulierung . - Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch): Interessengruppen, Gesundheitsmarkt, Regulierung, politischer Druck, Lobbyismus. - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): interest groups, health care market, political...

Using the health care reform of 2004 as an experience, the reaction of consumers (insured persons) and producers (pharmaceutical industry) based on electoral behavior and relating to drug prices and co-payments imposed on drugs is analyzed. The changes in prices and medications after this reform...

The genesis of this piece lies in two seemingly unrelated events in law and public health, the governmental response to the Ebola crisis, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, sparked by religious objections to certain employer mandates under the Affordable Care Act. While...

From my vantage point as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow working for a prominent moderate Democratic senator on a key committee, I observed the machinations of the supporters, opponents, and influencers of health reform legislation. This paper compares the strategy...

Mancur Olson's theory of the decline of nations is path-breaking in political economics. It has been tested cross-sectionally in numerous empirical studies. We survey the existing results briefly, with a special focus on studies using the number of lobbies as an exogenous variable. Using data...