Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 Book Launch Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform

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Tuesday, October 16, 20185:30PM - 7:30PMBoardroom and Library, 315 Bloor Street West

Description

Focusing on health care policy but with an eye to the policy process at large, Carolyn Tuohy argues for a more nuanced conception of the dynamics of policy change, one that distinguishes between the opening of opportunities for change and the magnitude of the changes that then occur. Four possible strategies emerge: large-scale and fast-paced (“big bang”), large-scale and slow-paced (“blueprint”), small-scale and rapid (“mosaic”), and small-scale and gradual (“incremental”). As Tuohy demonstrates, these strategies are determined not by political and institutional conditions themselves, but by the ways in which political actors, individually and collectively, read those conditions to assess their prospects for success in the present and over time.

Drawing on interviews as well as primary and secondary accounts of ten health policy cases over seven decades (1945—2015) in the US, UK, the Netherlands, and Canada, Remaking Policy represents a major advance in understanding the scale and pace of change in health policy and beyond.


Speakers

Randall Hansen
Welcome Remarks
Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Carolyn Tuohy
Speaker
Professor Emeritus and Founding Fellow in Public Policy, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

The Hon. Tony Dean
Opening Remarks
Senator, Parliament of Canada; Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Gregory P. Marchildon
Discussant
Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design, IHPME; Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Rob Vipond
Chair
Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Linda White
Discussant
Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy


Sponsors

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

University of Toronto Press

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