Distributed Democracy

This is the first book-length work to analyse Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks

Carey Doberstein is an assistant professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.

"Doberstein’s book will stand as the reigning analysis and critique of Ontario’s 15-year experiment with Local Health Integration Networks as mechanisms of health care governance, offering penetrating insights into the strengths and weaknesses of what he terms this ‘deeply controversial and often misunderstood model.’ Beyond that significant contribution, however, Doberstein’s treatment of the LHINs within an original ‘democratic arenas framework’ provides an illuminating approach to the study of experimentalist governance well beyond the case of the LHINs and indeed beyond the health care arena itself."

Katherine Boothe, Department of Political Science, McMaster University:

"Carey Doberstein’s book will stand as the reigning analysis and critique of Ontario’s fifteen-year experiment with Local Health Integration Networks as mechanisms of health care governance, offering penetrating insights into the strengths and weaknesses of what he terms this ‘deeply controversial and often misunderstood model.’ Beyond that significant contribution, however, Doberstein’s treatment of the LHINs within an original ‘democratic arenas framework’ provides an illuminating approach to the study of experimentalist governance well beyond the case of the LHINs and indeed beyond the health care arena itself."