Research and history reveal that many promising integrated care initiatives have been disrupted or sidelined by competing policy interests, power dynamics between different bodies, and pressure to deliver immediate savings in response to unfavourable financial environments.
The health of our political system, which is driven by special interests, power, pork and money; our free-market capitalism, which has lost its soul; our underclass of underinsured and uninsured workers; an apathetic voter who sees no difference in either political party.
The circumstances of justice — conflict of interests, power, and scarcity — do not belong in families, at least when they are functioning properly.
Indeed, while 'incentives,'vesteded interests,' power, and increasingly social utility are often factored into analyses of financial regulation, the strategies and tactics of financial institutions are rarely discussed in a systematic way in academic and policy debate.
The classic Fate of the Forest (Hecht and Cockburn 1990) is an excellent example of political ecology in the socio-cultural and ecological context of South American rainforests, rife with competing interests, power plays, and the marginalization of local/indigenous communities.
The political process is a stew of money and competing interests, power, compromise, cynicism and secret deals.
