Bras. Political Sci. Rev.2009;3(2):180-4.
Institutional Inertia and Bounded Innovation in Healthcare Policy
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3864200900020008
Norberto Bobbio (2005) taught us that the “great dichotomy” between public and private constitutes one of the most important definitions in political and social thought. It is as relevant as peace and war, democracy and autocracy, society and community, state of nature and civil state. By itself, this assertion would justify the major interest elicited by the work of Telma Maria Gonçalves Menicucci among public policy scholars and activists from the health field.
Público e privado na política de assistência à saúde no Brasil: atores, processos e trajetória is the book version of her Ph.D. thesis, which won an honourable mention from the 2004 Brazilian Scientific Works and University Theses in Social Sciences Prize, promoted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the National Social Science Postgraduate and Research Association (ANPOCS). However, as noted by Boschi (2007), the prize attests but does not make explicit the grandiosity of the research material brought together in this work.
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