This article explores the conceptualisation of choice as autonomy using three components – self-reflection, active … decision-making, and quality and range of options - and investigates empirical inequalities in autonomy, using newly …-collected data for the UK. ‘Choice’ has been promoted in social policy across many developed welfare states, often on the grounds …

Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to …

, we exploit the fact that choice-based reforms will create sharper financial incentives for hospitals in markets where … choice is geographically feasible and that prior to 2006, in the absence of patient choice, hospitals had no direct financial …