Contemporary involvement of citizens in the formation of mental health policies continues a long history of influential lay advocates achieving desired reforms. The Community Mental Health Centers Program arose from, and also recognized, the citizens' movement for community care. This...

The author argues that the design of decentralized political institutions shapes the effect of economic crisis on the welfare state. He proposes a simple framework for understanding the effects of crisis on areas under the responsibility of regional governments: their responses and mediating...

We find four key lessons that health policymakers and practitioners should be aware of: the potential of services liberalization to incur high transition and transaction costs; the difficulty of reconciling economic and social policy goals and the subsequent high likelihood of backlash; the...