Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Vergleichende Analyse Politischer Systeme

Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor of Social Policy within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on comparative social policy development, the interaction of labor market policy and social policy, and the impact of Europeanization on national welfare states. She is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of European Social Policy and of the Journal for Labour Market Research, and Chairperson of Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Labor Market and Employment Research (IAB).

 

Maria Asensio

Principal Investigator Portugal

Associate Professor, Directorate General for Administration and Public Employment, Department of Research, International Relations and Communication

Her research interests lie in the areas of policy and management issues related to healthcare organizations, public policy, public sector reforms and research methodology. Her most recent projects are: “Management of complaints in the public sector services” and “Ethical behavior in the Portuguese public administration”.

 

Paula Blomqvist

Principal Investigator Sweden

Associate Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University

Her research interests include welfare politics, public policy and governance. Her work has appeared in a variety of scientific journals, including Europan Journal of Social Policy, Social Science & Medicine, Social Policy & Administration, Governance, Education Policy and Scandinavian Political Studies as well as adademic publishers.

 

Camilla Devitt

Principal Investigator Ireland

Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Sociology

Camilla Devitt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Migration and Employment Research Centre. Her main research interests are immigration, welfare states and labour markets in Western Europe.

 

 

Maria Oskarsson

Principal Investigator Sweden

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg

Maria Oskarsson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her research interest is focused on political cleavages, that is the association between social position and political attitudes or voting, and how these associations vary with contextual factors such as welfare politics, party systems and political institutions, both in Sweden and in a comparative perspective.

 

Researcher

Ulrika Winblad

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University

Ulrika Winblad is a senior lecturer and the research group leader at the department of public health and caring sciences at the University of Uppsala. She is involved in research regarding health outcomes, health systems and policy, healthcare systems also in relation to chronic diseases  and holds a PhD from the same department at the University of Uppsala dealing with “The role of the Physician in Implementing Patient Choice in Swedish Health Care” in her dissertation in 2003. Her external assignments included being a reviewer at the Research Council of Health Care Services in Norway and a member of the expert group for “National Indicators for Good Care” in Sweden.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Diana Elena Burlacu

Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Humboldt- University Berlin

Her main research interests are contextual effects of various structures (e.g. good governance, welfare state, or health care regimes) on individual behavior and attitudes. Her most recent study is on the impact of health care insurance on political participation, where she examines whether German privately insured citizens are less involved into politics using the longitudinal German Socio- Economic Panel from 1990 till 2013. 

 

Tamara Popic

Institute for Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon

Tamara Popic has a PhD in Political Science. Her research interests include comparative healthcare policy analysis, institutional change and role of ideas and institutions in public policy making. She is also interested in the cross-country differences of welfare attitudes and causal links between institutions and public opinion.

 

 

Andra-Maria Roescu

Chair of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton

Andra Roescu is currently a research fellow in the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at the University of Southampton, working on the Norface funded 'The Paradox of Health State Futures' project (April 2015-March 2018) since the 1st of December 2015.  In 2013, she got her PhD in Political Science from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, with the thesis “Voting Rules Experiments. Evidence from the local and parliamentary elections in Romania”. Her research interests include electoral systems and voting behavior, public opinion, social policy and welfare attitudes.

 

Ave Roots

Chair of Social Policy, University of Tartu

Ave Roots has PhD in Sociology. She is interested in social inequalities, including inequalities in health and connections of health inequalities with other inequalities. She is also interested in reproduction of inequalities over generations and the cumulation of the inequalities over the life course, where health in later life is also mirroring the lifetime social inequalities very well.

 

Björn Rönnerstrand

Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg

Björn Rönnerstrand is a Postdoctor at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on health-related large-scale collective action problems such as immunization and antibiotic resistance, but also on generalized trust and confidence in political institutions and authorities. He is also researching in the disciplines of environmental opinion, corruption and international health policy.

 

Simone Schneider

Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin

Her main areas of interest are inequality and health research, justice attitudes, and quantitative methodologies.  

 

 

 

 

Cooperation Partners

Natasha Azzopardi Muscat

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Malta

Natasha Azzopardi Muscat researches at the University of Malta while focusing on Europeanisation of health systems in the EU-member states. In addition, she is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health in the UK and obtained her degree in Health Services Management. Besides her academic expertise, Natasha Azzopardi Muscat has worked for the Ministry of Health in Malta on a senior level for several years. Her newest publications include: “EU Country Specific Recommendations for Health Systems in the European Semester process: Trends, Discourse and Predictors“ and “Health in All Policies. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health” both published in 2015.

 

Mirza Balaj

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Albania and Kosovo

Mirza Balaj is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research interest lies in the intersection between social policy, health policy and social inequalities in health. In particular, her research examines the contribution to health inequalities of health care access, social, economic and material factors, life style factors, childhood conditions, working conditions, unemployment and housing conditions. Her main work in this field has been developed as member of the NORFACE project 'Health inequalities in European welfare states (HiNEWS).

 

Juris Barzdins

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Latvia

Juris Barzdins is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Latvia in Riga and the CEO of Clinic Premium Medical. Within his research he specialized e.g. in health management, health financing, healthcare systems, health policy and reform. His publications in 2016 include articles like “Developing health care management skills in time of crisis” published in the International Journal of Health Care Management and “Human Capital Development in Physicians’ Profession” published in the Academic Journal of Research in Economics and Management. Before his recent work Juris Barzdins was the Minister of Health in Latvia in 2010 and 2011.

 

Matthias Brunn

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on France

Matthias Brunn is pursuing his PhD in political science at the Printemps research unit, department of social sciences, University Paris-Saclay. His research interests include chronic disease and mental health as well as the analysis of health systems and reforms. He conducts a comparative analysis of health services and financing reforms in France and Germany, with a focus on the role of policy transfer and translation. His publications deal with “The impact of the crisis on the health system and health in France” published in 2015, “Care for patients with chronic illness - concepts, assessment and foreign experiences”, published in 2013.

 

María Elisa Chuliá Rodrigo

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Spain

Elisa Chuliá’s main research lies in the area of political and social developments in ageing populations and pension reforms, in public opinion and mass media in dictatorships as well as the social role of Spanish families. She is working in these areas as an Associate Professor of Social Sciences at the National Distance Education University. Numerous publications were written and edited by Elisa Chuliá which include “Consolidation and reluctant reform of the pension system” in 2011 and “State, Society and Family Change in 20th Century Spain: the Evolution of the Strong Family Model” in 2013.

 

Carina Diesenreiter

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Austria

Carina Diesenreiter is a research associate at the Institute for Social Policy, Department of Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include comparative welfare state and social policy research, in particular health and housing policies, as well as European integration processes in these areas. As a PhD student, she currently works on a project on cross-border health care in Europe funded by the Austrian National Bank (OeNB). Other research projects she participated in focused on health care seeking behaviour among students and migrant care work.

 

Edgars Eihmanis

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Latvia

Edgars Eihmanis is a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. His interests include comparative politics of taxation and EU economic governance. His recent publication “Cherry-picking external constraints” in Journal of European Public Policy analyses Latvia’s fiscal and social policy under three EU governance frameworks – the European Semester, the Balance-of-payments programme and euro convergence.

 

Mária Éva Földes

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Hungary

Mária Éva Földes is a lecturer in EU Law at the University of Applied Science in The Hague. Her research interests involve the European health law, dynamics of EU decision-making and health care systems and health policies. The numerous book chapters and journal articles by Mária Éva Földes have been published in magazines like the European Journal of Risk Regulation, the International Journal of Public Health and the European Journal of Consumer Law. These publications deal e.g. with the role of health rights enforcements in Hungary (published in 2014) and the regulatory framework for medical devices in the European Union (published in 2013).

 

Jane Gingrich

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on England

Jane Gingrich works and researches as an Associate Professor of Comparative Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford an as a Tutorial Fellow at the Magdalen College. She focuses her research in comparative political economy and comparative social policy while having a special interest in the structures of the welfare state and the institutional change. Jane Gingrich’s recent publications include an article in Comparative Political Studies: “Micro Preferences, Macro Contexts and the Demand for Social Policy” published in 2012 and “Making Markets in the Welfare State: The politics of varying market reforms” published in 2011.

 

Scott Greer

Responsible for the data sets and country chapters on Scottland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Scott Greer is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on politics of health policies, multi-level health policy making and comparative politics within the European Union, the US and Canada. He has published numerous books and articles in e.g. the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of European Public Policy. Some of his most recent work deals with the health policies in Europe: “Everything you always wanted to know about European Union health policies but were afraid to ask” published in 2014 and “The new political economy of healthcare in the European Union: The impact of fiscal governance” published in 2016.

 

Jasmin Hasic

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jasmin Hasić is an Assistant Professor at International Burch University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Political Theory from the Universite libre de Bruxelles and LUISS Guido Carli of Rome. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Humanity in Action BiH Foundation. His research interests revolve around diaspora studies and demographic changes associated with post-conflict migration, along with peacebuilding and transitional justice in multicultural post-conflict societies.

 

Patrick Hassenteufel

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on France

Patrick Hassenteufel is a Professor for sociology and political sciences at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and at the Sciences Po Saint-Gemain-en-Laye. His research interests lie in the area of comparative research methods in the public politics, the Europeanisation of social policy protection and in health politics, particularly in the medical sector. Patrick Hassenteufel has published several articles in the last years, to name a few: “The shaping of New State Elites: Healthcare Policy Making in France Since 1981”, published in 2015, and a book chapter about the French welfare state under the financial crisis with the title: “Muddling Through the Crisis”, also published in 2015.

 

Simonida Kacarska

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Macedonia

Simonida Kacarska is the director of the European Policy Institute, a think tank in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Her working experience is diverse and includes both public service, academia and civil society. She has held research and/or policy fellowships at several universities including the European University Institute in Florence, University of Edinburgh and Oxford University. She completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her research focuses on the role of international actors, foremost the European Union, in the political transformation of the Western Balkans. Simonida is a regular contributor to national and regional media and also consults for international organisations.

 

Ilias-Ioannis Kryiopoulos

Responsible for the data set and country chapter on Greece

Ilias-Ioannis Kryiopoulos is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. His dissertation focuses on the impact of austerity on health and healthcare services particularly in Greece while his broader research interests include health economics, health policy, political economy and quantitative research. He obtained a Master’s degree in Health Care Management from the National School of Public Health in Athens and one Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. Before London, Ilias-Ioannis Kryiopoulos was a Research Assistant at the Department of Health Economics and the National School of Public Health in Greece.