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Overview

Albert Weale is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within the social sciences, focusing extensively on political science and international relations, general health professions, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, as well as philosophy.

Their work covers a range of topics related to healthcare cost, quality, and practices, political philosophy and ethics, health systems including economic evaluations and quality of life, critical theory and philosophy, political systems and governance, pharmaceutical economics and policy, and healthcare systems and challenges.

Weale's recent papers include the following:

  • Reforming the public health system in England, 2022, The Lancet Public Health
  • We need to talk about values: a proposed framework for the articulation of normative reasoning in health technology assessment, 2023, Health Economics Policy and Law
  • Exorcising the positivist ghost in the priority-setting machine: NICE and the demise of the 'social value judgement', 2021, Health Economics Policy and Law
  • Public health by organizational fix?, 2023, Health Economics Policy and Law
  • Public health is in crisis, but it can be fixed, 2024, BMJ

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Littlejohns
  • Toslima Khatun
  • Jacqueline Johnson
  • David J. Hunter

The prominent venues where Weale regularly publishes are:

  • Health Economics Policy and Law
  • Policy Press eBooks
  • Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • BMJ

Albert Weale has authored several book publications, primarily with Policy Press, including multiple editions of Making Health Public published in 2023. Additionally, there is a publication under Bristol University Press eBooks for the same title in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The new politics of pollution

    Albert Weale

  • The Theory of Choice: A Critical Guide

    Ken Binmore;H. S. Hargreaves-Heap;M. Hollis;B. Lyons

  • Justice and Democracy

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  • Political theory and social policy

    Albert Weale

  • Environmental rules and rule‐making in the European Union

    Albert Weale

  • Equality and Social Policy

    Albert Weale

  • Social values in health priority setting: a conceptual framework

    Sarah Clark;Albert Weale

  • Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union?

    A Weale;Gfm Pridham;Michelle Cini;D Konstadakopulos

  • Political legitimacy and European Monetary Union : contracts, constitutionalism and the normative logic of two-level games

    Richard Bellamy;Albert Weale

  • Between economy and ecology? The single market and the integration of environmental policy

    Albert Weale;Andrea Williams

  • Political theory and the European Union : legitimacy, constitutional choice and citizenship

    Albert Weale;Michael Nentwich

  • Universal Health Coverage, Priority Setting and the Human Right to Health.

    Benedict Rumbold;Rachel Baker;Octavio Ferraz;Sarah Hawkes

  • Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance

    Judith Bara;Albert Weale;Aude Bicquelet

  • Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe

    Percy B. Lehning;Albert Weale

  • Packaging and Packaging Waste

    Albert Weale;Geoffrey Pridham;Michelle Cini;Dimitrios Konstadakopulos

  • Democracy

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  • Environmental Governance in Europe

    Albert Weale;Geoffrey Pridham;Michelle Cini;Dimitrios Konstadakopulos

  • New Modes of Governance, Political Accountability and Public Reason

    Albert Weale

  • European Environmental Policy by Stealth: The Dysfunctionality of Functionalism?:

    A Weale

  • Science advice, democratic responsiveness and public policy

    Albert Weale

  • The use of genetically modified crops in developing countries

    S. Thomas;D. Burke;M. Gale;M. Lipton

  • Brexit and British Politics

    Albert Weale

  • Environmental rules and rulemaking in the european union

    A Weale

  • The Third Way: New Politics for the New Century

    Albert Weale

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Littlejohns
Peter Littlejohns King's College London
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin Harvard University
Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy University College London
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Timothy O'Riordan
Timothy O'Riordan University of East Anglia
Sarah Hawkes
Sarah Hawkes University College London
Robert Sugden
Robert Sugden University of East Anglia
Ruth R. Faden
Ruth R. Faden Johns Hopkins University
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts University College London

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