Coalitions of the Well-being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries

ISBN: 9781107501225 出版年：2015 页码：308 Joel Sawat Selway Cambridge University Press

Part I: 1. Ethnic diversity or institutions? The source of public goods underprovision 2. Background and definitions 3. A socio-institutional theory of public goods provision 4. Testing the theory: health and education outcomes in developing democracies Part II. Electoral Rules and Health in Low Ethnic-Salience Countries: 5. Thailand: a new constitution and the introduction of universal healthcare 6. Single-member districts and medium-sized majority groups: Botswana and New Zealand Part III. Electoral Rules and Health in High Ethnic-Salience, Ethno-Geographically Intermixing Countries: 7. Mauritius: diversity and the success of majoritarian electoral rules 8. Malaysia: single-member districts, multi-ethnic parties and health Part IV. Electoral Rules in High Ethnic-Salience, Ethno-Geographically Isolated Countries: 9. Electoral rules and multiethnic parties in Burma's democratic era (1948-62) 10. Indonesia as a solution for ethno-geographically isolated societies Part V. Conclusion.