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...

This article analyzes the shifts of power relation and influence between pharmaceutical industry (producers), pharmacies, and social health insurers (SHI) in Germany based on drug prices. Since the health care reform of 2004, these interest groups have negotiated fees and discounts among each...

Poverty risk is most marked for children, displaced persons and returnees, unemployed, and people with low education. Basic goals of the macroeconomic framework of the mid-term development strategy of Bosnia and Herzegovina are to reduce the overall public expenditures, lower the public debt,...

What effects do interest groups have on the democratization and legitimacy of the European Union (EU)? Interest groups can democratize the EU only to the extent that they do not replicate inequalities. We use a newly constructed database to look for inequalities: Are the big organizations in...