How to start thinking about investigating power in the organizational settings of policy

作者: Ermin Erasmus , Lucy Gilson

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关键词: Key (cryptography)Public relationsPower (social and political)Empirical researchHealth policyManagement scienceProcess (engineering)BureaucracyPolitical scienceImplementation theoryLow and middle income countries

摘要: Power, a concept at the heart of health policy process, is surprisingly rarely explicitly considered in implementation literature for low and middle income countries. In an attempt to support empirical research on power, this paper outlines some key insights power from theory. It then describes examples that might be seen settings, such as hospitals, clinics local bureaucracies which these are embedded, concludes with suggestions ways investigating ensuring sound judgments made about its existence influence over implementation.

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