This article aims to understand the evolution of health care governance in the Dutch hospital and home care sector. We pay particular attention to how institutionalized governance structures shape policy reform. Professionally-dominated governance structures are likely to continue to exist to some degree, even when new policy measures seek to introduce hierarchical control or market mechanisms in order to restrict professional autonomy. In contrast to the home care profession, the dominance of the medical profession with its high corporate power has been institutionalized into the governance structure, constraining actors’ choices in ways that only permit incremental changes in hospital care.
AbbottA. (1988). The system of the professions. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
2.
AbbottP.WallaceC. (1990). An introduction to sociology, feminist perspectives. London, England: Routledge.
3.
AckroydS.KirkpatrickI.WalkerR. M. (2007). Public management reform in the UK and its consequences for professional organization: A comparative analysis. Public Administration, 85, 9-26.
4.
AdriaansenM.van der LaanB. (1996). De wijkverpleging en thuiszorg [Community nursing and home care]. Houten, Netherlands: Bohn Stafleu van Loghem.
5.
BateyM. V.LewisF. M. (1982). Clarifying autonomy and accountability in nursing service: Part 1. Journal of Nursing Administration, 12, 13-18.
6.
BurauV.WilsfordD.FranceG. (2009). Reforming medical governance in Europe. What is it about institutions?Health Economics, Policy & Law, 4, 265-281.
7.
ChildJ. (1972). Organizational structure, environment and performance: The role of strategic choice. Sociology, 6, 1-22.
8.
CoburnD. (1999). Professional autonomy and the problematic nature of self-regulation: Medicine, nursing and the state. Health and Canadian Society, 5, 25-53.
9.
Esping-AndersenG. (1990). The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
10.
FreidsonE. (1970). Professional dominance: The social structure of medical care. New York, NY: Atherton Press.
11.
FreidsonE. (2001). Professionalism: The third logic. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
12.
HallidayT. C. (1987). Beyond monopoly—Lawyers, state crisis, and professional empowerment. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
13.
HeldermanJ.SchutF.van GrintenT.van de VenW. (2005). Market-oriented health care reforms and policy learning in the Netherlands. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30, 189-209.
14.
HoodC. (1991). A public management for all seasons. Public Administration, 19, 3-19.
15.
KlazingaN. (1996). Quality management of medical specialist care in the Netherlands: An explorative study on its nature and development. Overveen, Netherlands: Belvedere.
16.
KnijnT. (2000). Marketization and the struggling logics of (home) care in the Netherlands. In MeyerM. Harrington (Ed.), Care work (pp. 232-248). New York, NY: Routledge Press.
17.
KnijnT.VerhagenS. (2007). Contested professionalism: Payments for care and the quality of home care. Administration & Society, 39, 451-475.
18.
KuhlmannE. (2006). Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press.
19.
LarsonM. S. (1977). The rise of professionalism: A sociological analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press.
20.
LieverdinkH.MaarseJ. (1995). Negotiating fees for medical specialists in the Netherlands. Health Policy, 31, 81-101.
21.
LijphartA. (1968). The politics of accommodation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
22.
MacDonaldK. M. (1995). The sociology of the professions. London, England: Sage.
23.
MahoneyJ. (2000). Path dependence in historical sociology. Theory and Society, 29, 507-548.
24.
MahoneyJ.ThelenK. (Eds.). (2010). Explaining institutional change. Ambiguity, agency, and power. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
25.
Ministry of Health. (2001). Vraag aan bod [Focus upon Demand]. Tweede Kamer 27855 (Vol. 2). The Hague, Netherlands: SDU.
26.
MuzioD.AckroydS.ChanlatJ. F. (Eds.). (2008). Redirections in the study of expert labour: Established professions and new expert occupations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
27.
NewmanJ. (2001). Modernizing governance: New labour, policy and society. London, England: Sage.
28.
NicolaiH. (2003). De eed en het geld. De positie van de medisch specialist in Nederland 1972–2002 [The Oath and the Money. The Position of the Medical Specialist in the Netherlands]. Utrecht, Netherlands: Petrus Camper Instituut.
29.
OECD. (2010). Value for money in health spending (OECD Health Policy Studies). Paris, France: OECD Publishing. doi:10.1787/9789264088818-en
30.
PerkinH. J. (1989). The rise of professional society: England since 1880. New York, NY: Routledge.
31.
PiersonP. (2000). Increasing returns, path dependence, and the study of politics. American Political Science Review, 94, 251-267.
32.
SchmidA.GötzeR. (2009). Policy learning in the health care system reform: The case of diagnosis related groups. International Social Security Review, 62, 21-40.
33.
ScholtenG. R. M.Van der GrintenT. E. D. (2002). Integrating medical specialists and hospitals. The growing relevance of collective organisation of medical specialists for Dutch hospital governance. Health Policy, 62, 131-139.
34.
SchutF. T. (1995). Health care reform in the Netherlands: Balancing corporatism, etatism, and market mechanisms. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 20, 615-652.
35.
SchutF. T.van de VenW. P. M. M. (2011). Managed competition in the Dutch health system: Is there a realistic alternative?Health Economics, Policy and Law, 6, 135-137.
36.
ScottW. R. (2008). Institutions and organizations: Ideas and interests. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
37.
SkocpolT.SomersM. (1980). The uses of comparative history in macro social inquiry. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22, 174-197.
38.
StreeckW.ThelenK. (2005). Beyond continuity. Institutional change in advanced political economics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
van der BoomH. (2008). Home nursing in Europe. Patterns of professionalisation and institutionalisation of home care and family care to elderly people in Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Germany (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Aksant.
41.
van DoornJ. A. A.SchuytC. J. M. (1982). De stagnerende verzorgingsstaat [The stagnating welfare state]. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Boom.
42.
van ElterenA.KunnemanH. P.RozingM. (2006). Thuiszorg in transitie [Home care in transition]. Utrecht, Netherlands: Universiteit voor Humanistiek.
43.
van PouckeA. (2007). The Dutch experience: Reciprocal influences between (socio-) political processes and casemix systems. BMC Health Services Research, 7(1, Suppl), A1.
44.
VerhagenS. (2005). Zorglogica’s uit balans. Het onbehagen in de thuiszorg verklaard [Struggling logics of care. Home care and its discontents explained] (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Utrecht University, Netherlands.
45.
WeberM. (1958). From Max Weber: Essays in sociology (GerthH. H.MillsC. Wright, Ed. & Trans.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
46.
Wijnen-SponseleeM. Th. (1997). Het Wit-Gele Kruis in Noord-Brabant. 1916-1974 [The White-Yellow Cross in North-B-rabant. 1916-1974]. Tilburg, Netherlands: Stichting Zuidelijk Historisch Contact.
47.
WRR. (2004). Bewijzen van goede dienstverlening [Proofs of good service provisions]. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.
