Making reform happen

the long version

OECD countries have made significant reform progress in recent decades, in fields as diverse as competition policy, health care and the environment. How have they done it, and why have reforms advanced in some places and stalled in others? This collection of essays analyzes the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future. While taking full account of the tremendous differences in the political and institutional settings in which these reforms were undertaken, the authors highlight a number of common challenges and potential solutions that hold good across both countries and issue areas. In the wake of the global financial and economic crisis, as, OECD governments confront the challenge of trying to restore public finances to health without undermining the recovery.--Publisher's description.