Unsustainable growth in healthcare expenditure demands effective cost-containment
policies. We review policy effectiveness using total payer expenditure as primary outcome …

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers
around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts …

Neighbourhood planning, introduced through the Localism Act 2011, was intended to
provide communities in England with new opportunities to plan and manage development …

In this paper we examine the creation and expansion of the English university system. We
show how the enormous increase in student numbers, which began with the Robbins Report …

Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and
political science amongst others) and using examples from across the globe, this book …

In the last 20 years, publicly provided social services–a pillar of the Post-WW2 welfare states–
have experienced significant restructuring throughout Europe. An important stream of …

In some western countries, market-driven reforms to improve efficiency and quality have
harmed the performance of some hospitals, occasionally leading to their closure, mostly in …

This paper explores how 'place'is conceptualised and mobilized in health policy and
considers the implications of this. Using the on-going spatial reorganizing of the English …

This chapter documents our understanding of funding flows as they pertain to AOD treatment
in Australia. Further details are provided in Working Paper# 3. The funding flows are …

In this paper, we examine how space is integral to the practices and politics of restructuring
health and care systems and services and specifically how ideas of assemblage can help …