Ruggie has provided an impressive analysis of health policy across three countries. Moreover, she ably accomplished her objective of using analytic framework to identify features of welfare states in transition that may signal a realignment of roles, relations, and modes of decision-making. (Boston Book Review)
Ruggie offers a convincing case for a reconstituted but vigorous form of welfare state, one that will better meet the needs of the complex state/society relations of the twenty-first century. (Robert Blank, author of
The Price of Life:
the Future of American Health Care
)