Philanthrocapitalism: Reflections on Politics and Policy Making

Reflections of a forensic psychiatrist in Washington: politics and policy.

I walked into the lobby of the Hart Senate Office Building and looked up at the imposing black metal Alexander Calder sculpture that extended from the lobby to the eighth floor of the building. I was about to begin a seven-month health policy fellowship with the goals of participating in the political process and gaining an insider’s perspective about how government really works. I entered the ...

Ingredients for Good Health Policy-Making: Incorporating Power and Politics into the Mix

Philosophical Reflections in Transcendental Modernism and Religious Politics

The current article believes that the intrinsic interdependence of modernity, science and secularism is an ideological non-universal interdependence but a hegemonic discourse. This kind of explanation and consideration is built upon a collection of ontological, epistemological, anthropological, methodological and evaluative sources. Based on two laws of "interchangeability of existence and scie...

The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

The Challenge of Networked Politics and Policy - Making

Political theory and research approaches are in most cases not explicit in all respects, but are usually shaped by implicit background theories and scientific worldviews, e.g. presuppositions and par adigms. Examples are idealism, materialism or institutionalism. A fairly new perspective in this regard is relationalism. This way of thinking, in its ontological orientation, conceives the world o...