This book uses a revised version of Kingdon's multiple-streams framework
to examine health financing reforms in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the
Republic of Korea (ROK) as well as long-term care insurance (LTCI)
reforms in Japan and Singapore. It shows that the explanatory power of
the multiple-streams framework can be strengthened through enriching the
concepts of policy entrepreneurs, ideas, and windows of opportunity in
the original framework as well as bringing the theoretical lens of
historical institutionalism into the framework.