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Overview

Ian Greener is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom and works within the fields of social sciences and health professions. Their research spans political science, international relations, general health professions, sociology, political science, economics, and statistics.

The main topics of Ian Greener's work include:

  • Political and economic history of the UK and US
  • Qualitative comparative analysis research
  • Employment and welfare studies
  • Global health care issues
  • Social policy and reform studies
  • Advanced causal inference techniques
  • Healthcare systems and challenges

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ian Greener are:

  • Martin Powell
  • Sophie King-Hill
  • Martine B. Powell
  • Mark Exworthy
  • Akash Gupta

Publication venues where Ian Greener's work often appears include:

  • Social Policy and Administration
  • Policy Press eBooks
  • Blood
  • Journal of European Social Policy
  • Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy

Recent papers authored by Ian Greener include:

  • "Healthcare funding and its relationship to equity and outcomes: A QCA analysis of Commonwealth Fund and OECD data" (2020, Journal of European Social Policy)
  • "Comparing country risk and response to COVID-19 in the first 6 months across 25 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries using qualitative comparative analysis" (2021, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy)
  • "Tolerance in QCA: moving debates on design, calibration, analysis, and interpretation in QCA forward in macrocomparative research" (2023, International Journal of Social Research Methodology)
  • "Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?" (2024, Social Policy and Administration)

Other noted publications co-authored or associated with Ian Greener include "IL-18 mediates sickle cell cardiomyopathy and ventricular arrhythmias" (2020, Blood), authored by Akash Gupta.

Ian Greener also has notable book publications with multiple releases under Policy Press and Bristol University Press eBooks:

  • Comparing Health Systems (2021, Policy Press & Bristol University Press eBooks)
  • The NHS at 75 (2023, Bristol University Press eBooks)
  • Welfare States in the 21st Century (2022, Edward Elgar Publishing)

Best Publications

  • The Potential of Path Dependence in Political Studies

    Ian Greener

  • Designing Social Research: A Guide for the Bewildered

    Ian Greener

  • Understanding NHS reform : the policy-transfer, social learning and path dependency perspectives.

    Ian Greener

  • Theorising path‐dependency: how does history come to matter in organisations?

    Ian Greener

  • Agency, social theory and social policy.

    Ian Greener

  • Molecular architecture of the human specialised atrioventricular conduction axis

    Ian Greener;Oliver Monfredi;Shin Inada;Natalie Chandler

  • Social learning and macroeconomic policy in Britain

    Ian Greener

  • Towards a history of choice in UK health policy

    Ian Greener

  • Patient Choice in the NHS: The View from Economic Sociology

    Ian Greener

  • No evidence that patient choice in the NHS saves lives.

    Allyson Pollock;Alison Macfarlane;Graham Kirkwood;F Azeem Majeed

  • Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank: Socio-Technical Networks and the ‘Rogue Trader’:

    Ian Greener

  • Markets in the public sector : when do they work, and what do we do when they don't ?

    Ian Greener

  • DECENTRALIZING HEALTH SERVICES IN THE UK: A NEW CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

    Stephen Peckham;Mark Exworthy;Martin Powell;Ian Greener

  • Who choosing what? The evolution of the use of ‘choice’ in the NHS, and its importance for New Labour

    Ian Greener

  • The three moments of new labour's health policy discourse

    Ian Greener

  • Decentralizing Health Services: More Local Accountability or Just More Central Control?

    Stephen Peckham;Mark Exworthy;Ian Greener;Martin Powell

  • Choice and Voice – A Review

    Ian Greener

  • Healthcare in the UK: Understanding continuity and change

    Ian Greener

  • The changing governance of the NHS: Reform in a post-Keynesian health service

    Ian Greener;Martin Powell

  • Are the assumptions underlying patients choice realistic?: a review of the evidence

    Ian Greener

  • Broadening the Focus of Public Service Consumerism

    Martin Powell;Ian Greener;Isabelle Szmigin;Shane Doheny

  • Decentralisation as an Organisational Model for Health Care in England

    S Peckham;M Exworthy;M Powell;I Greener

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Powell
Martin Powell University of Birmingham
Mark Exworthy
Mark Exworthy University of Birmingham
Russell Mannion
Russell Mannion University of Birmingham
Allyson M Pollock
Allyson M Pollock Newcastle University
Caroline Glendinning
Caroline Glendinning University of York
Chris Holden
Chris Holden University of York
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh

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