Chapters explore the political uncertainty and budgetary pressures which have led governments increasingly to turn to New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms to attempt to balance the financial viability of public health structures, with democratic imperatives to maintain socially just outcomes.

Chapter 1. German  Healthcare  in  Transition:  Global  Pressures,  Governance, and  Public  Wellbeing; Patricia  Hogwood.– Chapter 2. Realigning  Hospital  Planning  in  Germany:  Promoting  or Curbing Market  Competition?; Tanja  Klenk.– Chapter 3. Marketization and Accountability: Lessons from the Reforming Norwegian Health Care System; Simon Neby.– Chapter 4. From  Demi-Gods  in  White  to  Normal  Employees:  Re-evaluating Physicians’  Employment  and  New  Incentive  Structures  in  German Hospitals; Maximiliane  Wilkesmann.– Chapter 5. Accountability in Multilevel Health Care Services: The Case of Norway; Haldo Byrkjeflot, Tom Christensen, Per Laegreid.– Chapter 6. Organ  Transplant  Policies and Cultural Worldviews; Paola Mattei.– Chapter 7. From  'Major  Decisions'  to  'Everyday  Quality':  Direct Accountability  to  Hospital  Clients  in  the  Netherlands; Thomas Schillemans,  Hester  van  de  Bovenkamp,  and  Margo  Trappenburg.– Chapter 8. Accountability  and  Shared  Measurement  in  the  Israeli  Health Care  System; Yehonatan  Almog,  Bruce  Rosen,  and  Jack  Habib.