Distributed Democracy
Health Care Governance in Ontario
Published on 26. March 2020
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-1-4875-0725-1 (ISBN)
Description
The governance of health care in Ontario has long provided opportunities for citizens and stakeholders to participate, deliberate, and influence health care policy and investment decisions. Yet, despite providing opportunities for deliberation and influence amongst citizens, we don't know how democratic the system actually is.
Distributed Democracy advances an original analytical framework to guide an investigation of democracy and accountability relationships in complex policy making environments. Applying the analytical framework in the context of health care governance in Ontario from 2004-2019, Carey Doberstein shows that the popular criticisms of health care governance in Ontario are misplaced. The democratic system of local health care governance is often plagued by severed connections among the various layers of deliberation and policy-making. An incisive analysis with considerable relevance for policy-makers and across academic disciplines, Distributed Democracy makes an important contribution to our understanding of policy development and decision-making as well as the limitations and potential of distributed democratic accountability.
Distributed Democracy advances an original analytical framework to guide an investigation of democracy and accountability relationships in complex policy making environments. Applying the analytical framework in the context of health care governance in Ontario from 2004-2019, Carey Doberstein shows that the popular criticisms of health care governance in Ontario are misplaced. The democratic system of local health care governance is often plagued by severed connections among the various layers of deliberation and policy-making. An incisive analysis with considerable relevance for policy-makers and across academic disciplines, Distributed Democracy makes an important contribution to our understanding of policy development and decision-making as well as the limitations and potential of distributed democratic accountability.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
8 figures
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0725-1 (9781487507251)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Carey Doberstein is an assistant professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction
2. The Democratic Arenas Framework
3. The Evolution of Health Care Governance in Ontario
4. Procedural Decision-Making Bodies that Enable and Constrain LHINs
5. LHINs as Mandated Decision-Making Sites
6. LHIN Advisory Committees and Public Engagement
7. A Democratic Arenas Analysis of LHINs
References
End Notes
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction
2. The Democratic Arenas Framework
3. The Evolution of Health Care Governance in Ontario
4. Procedural Decision-Making Bodies that Enable and Constrain LHINs
5. LHINs as Mandated Decision-Making Sites
6. LHIN Advisory Committees and Public Engagement
7. A Democratic Arenas Analysis of LHINs
References
End Notes