eprintid: 25921
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1589
dir: disk0/00/02/59/21
datestamp: 2019-03-05 16:33:11
lastmod: 2022-07-18 01:23:24
status_changed: 2019-03-05 16:33:11
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Gautier, Lara
creators_name: De Allegri, Manuela
creators_name: Ridde, Valéry
title: How is the discourse of performance-based financing shaped at the global level? A poststructural analysis
subjects: ddc-300
divisions: i-912800
keywords: Global discourse, Performance-based financing, Diffusion entrepreneurs, Poststructural analysis
abstract: Background: Performance-based financing (PBF) in low- and middle-income settings has diffused at an unusually rapid pace. While many studies have looked at PBF implementation processes and effects, there is an empirical research gap investigating the ways PBF has diffused. Discursive processes are paramount elements of policy diffusion because they explain the origins of essential elements of the political debate on PBF. Using Bacchi’s poststructural approach that emphasises problem representations embedded in the discourse, the present study analyses the construction of the global discourse on PBF.

Methods: A rich corpus of qualitative data (57 in-depth interviews and 10 observation notes) was collected. The transcribed material was coded using QDAMiner©. Codes were assembled to populate analytical categories informed by the framework on diffusion entrepeneurs and Bacchi’s poststructural approach.

Results: Our results feature problem representations shaped and spread by PBF global diffusion entrepreneurs. We explain how these representations reflected diffusion entrepreneurs’ own belief systems and interests, and conflicted with those of non-diffusion entrepreneurs. This research also reveals the specific strategies global diffusion entrepreneurs engaged in to effectively diffuse PBF, through reflecting problem representations based on the discourse on PBF, and inducing certain forms of policy experimentation, emulation, and learning.   

Conclusions: Bacchi’s poststructural approach is useful to analyse the construction of global health problem representations and the strategies set by global diffusion entrepreneurs to spread these representations. Future research is needed to investigate the belief systems, motivations, resources, and strategies of actors that shape the construction of global health discourses.
date: 2019
publisher: BioMed Central
id_scheme: DOI
ppn_swb: 1663737185
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-259213
language: eng
bibsort: GAUTIERLARHOWISTHEDI2019
full_text_status: public
publication: Globalization and Health
volume: 15
number: 6
place_of_pub: London
pagerange: 1-21
issn: 1744-8603
citation:   Gautier, Lara ; De Allegri, Manuela ; Ridde, Valéry  (2019) How is the discourse of performance-based financing shaped at the global level? A poststructural analysis.  Globalization and Health, 15 (6).  pp. 1-21.  ISSN 1744-8603     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25921/1/12992_2018_Article_443.pdf