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Scott Greer

Scott L. Greer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

M3158 SPH II
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: 734-615-3711

E-mail: slgreer@umich.edu

Website(s): Personal Website

Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 72,931 KB)

Professional Summary

Scott L. Greer, Ph.D., a political scientist, does research on the consequences for health policy and the welfare state of federalism, decentralization, and European integration. His work focuses especially on the United Kingdom and the development of health policy in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has also done research on health politics and federalism in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Before coming to Michigan, he taught at the University of London. He currently directs a two-year project on the consequences for health services and citizenship rights of trends towards both decentralization and the development of European Union powers in health.

Courses Taught

HMP684: The Politics of Health Services Policy
HMP685: The politics of Public Health Policy

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Northwestern University, 2003
B.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1996

Research Interest & Projects

Development of European Union health policy and multi-level health policymaking in the UK; health politics in Britain, Spain, and Canada; comparative politics of Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Selected Publications

Greer SL (in press). Nationalism and Self-Government: The Politics of Autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia State University of New York Press.

Greer S.L. (2006). Uninvited Europeanization: Neofunctionalism, Health Services and the EU Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 13, no. 1

Greer S.L. (2005). Territory, Democracy, and Justice: Federalism and Regionalism in Western Democracies Palgrave Macmillan.

Greer S.L. (2005). The Politics of Health Policy Divergence Regional and Federal Studies, Vol 15, no. 4, 501-518.

Greer S.L. (2004). Territorial Politics and Health Policy Manchester University Press.

Greer S.L., Swenson P. (2002). Foul Weather Friends: Big Business and Health Care Reform in the 1990s in Historical Perspective Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 27, no. 4, 605-639.

Additional Information

Current research: Changes in UK's health services based on European Union and decentralization policies