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
7 - In and Out of the Overton Window
How Talking about Health Inequality Made the Problem Harder to Solve
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 the preceding three chapters, we saw how politicians and policy-makers in England, France, and Finland reframed the issue of inequality in the 1990s and 2000s. In each country, public discourse about the problem of inequality – how the problem was defined, what caused it, who was responsible for solving it, and how best to do that – underwent important changes during this period. Reframing inequality in this way was facilitated by the availability of an international consensus on health inequality at the European level, whose development was described in Chapter 3. The reframing of inequality resulted in large part from the efforts of politicians who wanted to maintain their credibility as defenders of societal equity, but who were increasingly unwilling to advocate classical welfare policies like redistributive taxation, substantial public spending on services, or intervention in product markets.
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- Regimes of InequalityThe Political Economy of Health and Wealth, pp. 176 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020