Book contents
- Regimes of Inequality
- Regimes of Inequality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
- 2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality
- 3 Health Inequalities
- 4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
- 5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity
- 6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
- 7 In and Out of the Overton Window
- 8 Regimes of Inequality
- Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
- References
- Index
5 - Inequality, Territory, Austerity
Health Equity in France since the U-Turn
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2019
- Regimes of Inequality
- Regimes of Inequality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
- 2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality
- 3 Health Inequalities
- 4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
- 5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity
- 6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
- 7 In and Out of the Overton Window
- 8 Regimes of Inequality
- Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
- References
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 4 we saw that, when the postwar welfare order in Britain came into contact with a rising neoliberal current, center-left politicians reframed the problem of social inequality in terms of health. In order to avoid violating a self-imposed taboo against discussing redistribution, Labour leaders took up the issue of health inequality, which appeared to allow the party to maintain its long-standing commitment to a more equitable society without raising the specter of taxing high incomes. Health inequality has played an analogous discursive role in French politics, allowing French center-left leaders to avoid discussing a sensitive topic made salient by the collision between France’s conservative-corporatist postwar welfare order and the neoliberal paradigm that came to dominate Europe in the 1980s.
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- Regimes of InequalityThe Political Economy of Health and Wealth, pp. 112 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020