Lessons from abroad for funding long-term care in England: a prospective policy transfer perspective on official documents
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Article publication date: 28 September 2021
Issue publication date: 23 September 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Many governments stress the importance of “learning from abroad”. An analysis of official documents over a period of some 20 years examines learning from abroad in the case of funding long-term care in England through the lens of prospective policy transfer.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper analyses the eight “official” documents in England that examined funding LTC from 1999 to 2019. It uses interpretive content analysis in a deductive approach that focuses on both manifest and latent content.
Findings
Only four of the eight documents gave more than a token level of attention to other nations, and of the remaining four, none fully satisfied the criteria or followed the recommendations of prospective policy transfer. Moreover, a rather limited pool of lessons from other nations is examined. Much of the material is rather descriptive, with limited explicit attention towards goals, problems, settings and policy performance, and a clear recommendation explicitly associated with a clear lesson or policy recommendation is rare.
Originality/value
This is the first analysis of the eight official documents that have discussed funding long-term care in England.
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Citation
Powell, M. (2022), "Lessons from abroad for funding long-term care in England: a prospective policy transfer perspective on official documents", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 42 No. 11-12, pp. 949-961. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-06-2021-0154
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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