Performance regimes in health care: Institutions, critical junctures and the logic of escalation in England and the Netherlands

Evaluation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-29

  Pollitt, Christopher ^a   Harrison, Stephen ^b   Dowswell, George ^b   Jerak Zuiderent, Sonja ^c   Bal, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparative; Formative; Health care; History; Performance indicators; Summative

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549127525     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389009350026     Document Type: Article

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