Governing Health

  • Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
    By William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

    Journal of Political Economy 91:765–800. Weissert, Carol S. (1992). Medicaid in the 1990s: Trends, Innovations, and the Future of the “PAC-Man” of State Budgets. Publius 22 (3): 93–109. Weissert, Carol S., Benjamin Pollack, ...

  • Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
    By William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

    The Politics of Health Policy William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert ... But one more element is needed to make the model work: some way to enforce the deals—to make them “stick” over the months of congressional decision making.

  • Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
    By William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

    Indeed, Elisabeth Gerber (1999) found that policies in states with initiatives more closely reflect voter preferences than do policies in states without them and that this effect is greatest where access to the direct legislation ...

  • Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
    By William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

    Updates to the fourth edition of Governing Health include • new examples and theory perspectives• recent statistics• discussion of the 2010 Obama health reform

  • Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
    By William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

    In the first edition of the acclaimed Governing Health, Carol S. Weissert and William G. Weissert examined health care policy making from a long-term political perspective, describing how Congress, the...

  • Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy
    By William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert

    The third edition of this pathbreaking book is updated to cover recent legislative efforts, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Praise for previous editions of Governing Health