Common Health Policy Interests and the Politics of Rights, Regulation, and Redistribution

Abstract

The Globalism and Social Policy Program (GASPP) was a joint academic and advisory program between the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health in Finland and Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. GASPP raised issues and themes which have only later become more central to academic discussion in the field of global social policy One of the major themes identified by the GASPP was the concept of rights, redistribution, and regulation in the context of global social policy and in particular as part of global social governance. The focus on rights, redistribution, and regulation — the 3Rs — was explicitly referred to in the GASPP policy brief focusing on ten years after the Copenhagen Social Summit (Deacon et al., 2005). The existence and nature of ‘global’ social policy can and has been debated, but the framework of rights, regulation, and redistribution continues to be a useful means for analyzing the implications of global governance. This framework has particular salience with respect to both global institutions and developments in the field, and how global governance in other sectors may affect the national policy space for social policies within countries.KeywordsEuropean UnionGlobal GovernanceIntellectual Property RightInvestment TreatyPharmaceutical PolicyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.