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| List of Illustrative Material | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Compare Public Policies? | |
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| Is comparative research a separate field of enquiry? | |
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| Comparative public policy in historical perspective | |
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| Defining comparative public policy research | |
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| Comparing public policies in an interconnected world | |
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| Differences between Public Policies: An Introduction | |
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| Public policy resources | |
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| How governments act: policy instruments | |
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| Trends in the use of policy instruments | |
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| The scope of public policies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Economic Policy | |
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| The context: theories of economic policy development | |
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| Comparing economic policies across nations | |
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| The scope of economic policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Welfare Policy | |
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| The context: theories of welfare policy development | |
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| Theories of systematic difference across nations | |
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| Comparing welfare policies across nations | |
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| Governments and occupational and voluntary welfare | |
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| The scope of welfare policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Health Policy | |
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| The context: theories of health policy development | |
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| Comparing health care policies across nations | |
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| The scope of health policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Education Policy | |
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| The context: theories of education policy development | |
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| International pressures | |
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| Comparing education policies across nations | |
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| The scope of education policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Environmental Policy | |
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| The context: theories of environmental policy development | |
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| Theories of systematic difference across nations | |
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| International pressures | |
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| Comparing environmental policies across nations | |
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| The voluntary and private sectors and environmental policy | |
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| The scope of environmental policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Interests and Public Policy | |
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| What are interests? | |
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| Interest-based approaches to explaining public policy | |
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| Problems with interest-based accounts | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ideas and Public Policy | |
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| What are ideas? | |
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| Ideas-based approaches to explaining public policy | |
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| Attempts to synthesize different approaches | |
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| When do ideas change? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Institutions and Public Policy | |
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| What are institutions? | |
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| Institution-based approaches to explaining public policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Policy Transfer and Learning | |
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| Why are policies imposed, taught and learned? | |
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| Policy transfer | |
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| Policy learning | |
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| Identifying policy transfer and learning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Policy-Making beyond the Nation State | |
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| Defining globalization and Europeanization | |
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| Capital and trade flows | |
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| The increasing transnationalization of business | |
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| The impact of capital and trade flows and the increasing transnationalization of business | |
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| Flows of people and information | |
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| International governing institutions | |
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| Global trends and their impact | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Comparative Public Policy: A Minority World Pursuit? | |
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| Comparative public policy: excluding the Majority World? | |
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| Majority World analytical approaches | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Doing Comparative Public Policy | |
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| Choices in comparative research | |
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| Challenges for comparative public policy research | |
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| The practicalities of comparative research | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |