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Coalitions of the Well-Being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries Joel Sawat Selway Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10304-7 - Coalitions of the Well-being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries Joel Sawat Selway Index More information Index accuracy, 20, 21, 112 Bantu, 69, 70, 139, 238 Aceh(nese), 225, 227, 228, 229, 238, 252 Batak, 227, 228, 229 ACT New Zealand, 147 bed-doctor ratio, 129 advanced industrial, 14, 22, 29, 31, 46, 56, 74, bed-occupancy rate, 111 78, 108, 243, 250 Belgium, 7, 39, 49, 52, 82, 89, 194, 250, affirmative action, 34, 203, 206 251, 252 AFPFL, 54, 214, 217, 218–223 Bérenger, Paul, 169, 170, 172, 173, 177 Africa(n), 3, 5–8, 14, 25, 31, 36, 37, 43, 44, Best Loser System, 193 47, 69, 71, 78, 88, 138, 140, 143, 155, Betawi, 227, 228, 229 156, 181, 190, 211, 237 bipolarized/bipolarization, 32, 49 All Burma Karen Organization, 222 Blau, Peter, 11, 26 All Mauritius Hindu Congress, 167 Block Vote, 93, 95, 97, 161 All Shan State Organization, 221 Boodhoo, Harish, 172 Alliance de L’Avenir, 179 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 39, 70, 71, 87, 250, Alliance of Arch Enemies, 60–64, 66, 162, 252, 253 166, 173, 174, 179, 186, 200, 202–205, Botswana, viii, 6, 8, 22, 40, 46, 78, 87, 92, 220, 222. See alliances 138–143, 155, 195, 199, 244 The Alliance, New Zealand, 147 Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), 139, 140 ambulances, 115 Botswana Housing Corporation, 141 antiretroviral, 180 breadth, 12, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 51, 53, 54, Anwar Ibrahim, 204 56, 58, 66, 76, 84, 92, 100, 108, 149, Arakan National United Organization, 221 151, 182, 191, 196, 197, 239, 246, Arakan(ese), 214, 216, 217, 219, 221–223 251, 253 Asia, 3, 7, 8, 45, 47, 155, 156, 190, 208, 246 British colonies, 40, 43, 44, 46, 195 Austronesian, 199 broad access, 186 authoritarian(ism), 10, 69, 201, 204, 246 broad alliances, 205 autocratic, 11 broad allocation, 34, 108, 124, 156, 184 broad coalitions, 252 Bahujan Samaj, 66, 67 broad constituencies, 99 Balinese, 227–229 broad focus, 15, 50 ballot control, 100 broad parties, 14, 15, 23, 26, 51, 54, 57, 62, Bangkok, 91, 100, 103, 109–112, 114, 115, 84, 97, 128, 144, 152, 161, 165, 166, 117, 118, 124, 134 181, 182, 195, 201, 206, 209, 211, 230, Banharn Silpa-archa, 109 232, 239, 243–247, 250, 251 281 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10304-7 - Coalitions of the Well-being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries Joel Sawat Selway Index More information 282 Index broad platforms, 93, 102, 165, 244 civil war(s), 7, 27, 32, 142, 213, 214, 249, broad policies, 54, 55, 65, 76, 77, 107, 109, 250, 252 114, 135, 153, 182, 203, 248 Clean AFPFL, 221 broad support base, 9, 12, 51, 67, 71, 84, 143, clientelistic parties, 52, 53 152, 187, 233, 236 closed-list, PR, 57, 93 broadly, 4, 12, 14, 26, 28, 33, 50, 56, 59, Closing the Gaps, New Zealand, 149, 152 73, 76, 84, 93, 100, 108, 118, 119, coalition building, 50 125, 130, 144, 152, 167, 181, 191, coalition partners, 50, 61, 73, 120, 137, 206, 244 222, 223 broadly targeted, 94 coalitions(s), 15, 30, 34, 50, 55, 57, 59–62, Buddhism, 94, 95, 222, 227 63, 64, 66–73, 99, 105, 107, 112, 120, Budget Bureau, Thailand, 110, 112 132, 134, 135, 137, 146, 153, 167, 168, budgets, 76, 112, 127, 128 173, 174, 178, 179, 187, 191, 194, 197, Buku Jingaa, 205 202, 204, 216, 218–224, 230, 234, 237, bumiputera, 199, 200, 201, 204 243, 246, 250, 252 bureaucracies, 52 co-ethnics, 34, 55, 65, 163 Burma Muslim Congress, 221 Comité d’Action Muselman, 167 Burma Proper, 217 communicable diseases, 33 Burman, 214–217, 219–224, 237 compensates, 35, 143 Burman parties, 214 compensation, 35, 122 Burunaj Samutharaks, 105 compromise, 12, 50, 65, 99, 112, 128, 179, 193, 213, 216, 237, 247, 248, candidate, 11, 13, 29, 33, 52, 58, 65, 66, 68, 250, 252 70, 72, 95, 97, 98, 101, 109, 162, 164, conditional, 25, 32, 75 169, 170, 171, 195, 219, 233 conflict, 7, 9, 11, 27, 29, 32, 34, 54, 224, 249, caste(s), 27, 65, 66, 67, 157, 173 250, 252 caste parties, 67 Congo, DRC, ix, 3, 7, 213, 238, catch-all parties, 52 245, 250 Catholic party, 236 congress parties, 54, 55, 61, 67, 245 causal process observations, 18 Congress Party, India, 55 causality, 16–18, 20, 21 consensus, 13–15, 23, 29, 32, 35, 39, 44, 51, center-right parties, 68 70, 195, 236, 237, 248, 252 Cerveaux, Roger (Father), 161 conservative parties, 63 Chandra, 25, 27, 35, 55, 67, 163, 238 constituencies, 13, 14, 55, 102, 103, Chart Thai, 99, 106, 109 109, 112, 120, 139, 141, 144, 146, Chat Pattana, 105, 132 153, 167, 168, 170, 171–173, 182, 186, check-ups, 105, 107, 180 191, 200, 202–205, 209, 213, 216, 217, Chi-Square, 47 219, 245 Child Health Passport, Mauritius, 180 constituency pooling, 33 Chin, 214, 216, 217, 219, 222 constituency service, 98 Chin parties, 222 Constituent Assembly, Burma, 214, 217 Chinese, 9, 53, 54, 94, 157, 158, 161, constitution, viii, 14, 93, 94, 100, 102, 166–169, 171–174, 178, 192, 194, 195, 118, 120, 121, 123, 126, 131, 132, 198–200, 201–203, 209, 225, 227–230, 175, 214, 217, 222, 245, 247, 232–234, 238, 245 251, 253 Chinese parties, 203, 230, 231, 233, 234 constitutional changes, 104, 131, 132, Christian Democrat parties, 52, 234 135, 197 Christian parties, 232, 236 constitutional designers, 94 Christie Report, Botswana, 141 constitutional engineering, 10, 92, 253 Chuan Leekpai, 103, 104 constraints, 33, 35, 50, 104 Civil Servants Medial Benefits (CSMB), construction, 34, 53, 110–113, 115, 122, 183, Thailand, 124, 125, 135 196, 206 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10304-7 - Coalitions of the Well-being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries Joel Sawat Selway Index More information Index 283 coordination, 8, 9, 23, 27, 50, 65–67, 69–73, development, 4, 5, 7–11, 18, 19, 23, 49, 57, 97, 162–165, 172, 176, 192, 193, 202, 64, 99, 138, 140, 141, 148–151, 155, 209, 213, 218, 224, 245, 247, 253 169, 177, 179, 180, 181, 190, 206, 209, corruption, 108, 109, 113–115, 119, 122, 133, 228, 229, 249, 253 134, 137, 141, 184, 185, 196, 234, 244 diarrheal disease, 92 Creoles, 9, 157, 159–161, 164, 165, 167, 168, discrimination, 25, 167, 179, 188, 170–172, 178, 182, 186, 199 231, 249 Crescent Star Party, 234 diseases, 5, 33, 108, 130, 131, 142, 179, cross-cut, 26, 37, 95, 249 180, 196 cross-cutting, 49, 59, 71, 74, 82 disproportionality, 23, 35, 58, 61, 63–65, 144, cross-cutting cleavages, 11, 26, 27, 36, 39, 59, 164, 175, 176, 178, 194, 251 75, 251, 253 District Health Boards (DHBs), New cross-cuttingness, 12, 26, 27, 36, 37, 39, 40, Zealand, 151 43, 47–49, 59, 75, 76, 79, 83, 84, 123, district magnitude, 28, 29, 31, 56–58, 61, 63, 157, 161, 191, 192, 228, 243, 249, 250, 69, 77, 80, 82, 83 253 district(s), 12, 13, 15, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, cross-district coordination, 97, 162, 164, 193 35, 52, 56–69, 71–73, 95, 97–99, 101, cross-ethnic voting, 68, 69, 72, 170, 178, 203, 102, 107, 109, 116, 138, 146, 147, 156, 218, 251 161, 162, 164–166, 170, 174, 175, 178, cross-national data set, 27, 31, 37 191–193, 199, 200, 202, 203, 213, 216, Cross-national Indices of Multi-dimensional 224, 228, 230, 231, 233, 236, 238, 243, Measures of Social Structure (CIMMSS), 244, 251 21, 27, 39, 78, 252 diverse, 7–9, 11–16, 19, 24, 25, 27, 29, crucial case, 19 32, 35, 39, 43, 44, 46, 55, 64, 65, CT scanners, 112, 183 68, 71, 84, 143, 151, 155, 195, 202, 209, 214, 216, 224, 225, 231, 237, 238, David, James Burty, 172 244, 246 Dayak Unity Party, 236 divided societies, 3, 8, 51 deadlock, 165 Docteurs Panadol, 185 Deerpalsingh, Kishore, 185 doctor shortages, 106, 108, 119, 120, 182 democracy, 8–15, 19, 29, 39, 69, 78, 79, 85, doctors, 105, 108, 117, 122, 123, 127–129, 86, 90, 117, 146, 147, 153, 204–206, 150, 182, 183, 185–187 209, 213, 223, 224, 231, 236, 237, 245, dominant group, 36, 54, 64, 92 246, 252, 253 DRC, 3, 7 Democrat Party, 52, 60, 94, 98–101, 104, 106, Drinking water, 92 107, 126, 131, 135–137 Drop-In Centers, Mauritius, 180 democratic, 8–11, 39, 52, 68, 69, 78, 99, 142, drugs, 76, 108, 109, 114, 115, 132, 142, 184, 183, 200, 209, 211, 213, 224, 236, 238, 185 239, 245, 249 Duval, Gaëtan, 163, 167, 169 Democratic Action Party, 203 Duval, Xavier-Luc, 174 Democrats, 100, 101, 103–107, 120, 135, 136 Duverger, Maurice, 30, 31 Demographic and Health Surveys, 37 demographics, 22, 199 Easterly, William, 8, 25, 26 designing democracies, 9 Eastern Europe, 3, 44 detailed policies, 103, 133, 178, 181 economic growth, 8, 27, 30, 33, 142, 143, 155, develop, 1, 4, 10, 15, 16, 20, 21, 30, 51, 84, 220, 239, 249 102, 105, 151, 153, 155, 181, 236 economic utility, 55, 72, 162 developed, 4, 10, 11, 16, 24, 30, 37, 51, 53, education, vii, 1, 3–7, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 71, 74, 76, 82, 92, 95, 97, 99, 144, 146, 56, 74, 77, 92, 99, 112, 114, 119, 149, 152, 166, 174, 181, 182, 186 150, 151, 155, 156, 159, 163, 169, 180, developing democracies, 3, 7, 22, 46, 74, 78, 184, 187, 190, 191, 203, 206, 208, 211, 243 243, 248, 249 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10304-7 - Coalitions of the Well-being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries Joel Sawat Selway Index More information 284 Index education spending, 184 176–179, 181, 186, 191–194, 196, 199, electoral arrangements, 14, 69, 71 200–204, 209, 211, 213–218, 220, electoral district, 24, 28, 56, 60, 68, 76, 109, 223–225, 227–234, 236–239, 243–247, 164, 176, 183, 192 249, 251–253 electoral formula, 28, 29, 56, 57 ethnic harmony, 71 electoral
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