Healthcare reform out of nowhere? policy reform and the lack of programmatic commitment in Peru

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Abstract

The reform approved in Peru in 2009 during a right-wing government deviates from similar attempts in the region to expand access to healthcare. Left-wing parties in Peru were extremely weak during the policy-making process and the political parties were non-programmatic. Based on original field research, this article demonstrates how parties that lacked core values uniting their leaders and had no commitment to the health reform did not care for the definition of specifications regarding funding and implementation. Instead, technocrats dominated the process of policy formation, which, accompanied by the lack of commitment from key political actors, led to poorly specified policy and deficient implementation.

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Ponce De Leon, Z. (2021). Healthcare reform out of nowhere? policy reform and the lack of programmatic commitment in Peru. Journal of Latin American Studies, 53(3), 493–519. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X21000493

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