Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Selected socio-economic aspects of post-communist health care transition -- Chapter 3: Transformation of hospital governance in post-Semashko health systems -- Chapter 4: Economic implications of transforming hospital governance -- Chapter 5: Statistical...

Leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists here analyze current changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a range of contemporary perspectives (such as evolutionary economics, and network analysis) they question many of the assumptions associated with the notion of...