Titlebook: Comparative Policy Studies; Conceptual and Metho Isabelle Engeli,Christine Rothmayr Allison Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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Mixed-Methods Designs in Comparative Public Policy Research: The Dismantling of Pension Policiespublic health research and psychological science (Giddings, 2006; Doyle et al., 2009). Multimethod approaches and techniques of triangulation have a long tradition in these literatures (Campbell and Fiske, 1959; Jick, 1979; Brewer and Hunter, 1989). They have however only recently been translated in

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Josh Schoolcraft,Andrew Klesh,Thomas Wernehe fact that the diversity of methodological and theoretical approaches, and the more ‘craft-oriented’ than purely science-oriented character of policy studies, make the building of grand theory a vain endeavour. Others, in order to affirm that we can meaningfully speak of a field of policy studies,

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Josh Schoolcraft,Andrew Klesh,Thomas Wernentain goal(s) and the means to achieve them, however well or poorly identified, justified, articulated and formulated. Probably the best-known, simple and short definition of public policy has been offered by Thomas Dye, ‘anything a government chooses to do or not to do’ (Dye, 1972: 2).While many or

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M. Fontanier,H. Ruiz,C. Scaleggie’ in their titles), only a few scholars appear to have . a comparative study. My critique here echoes Benoît Rihoux’ observation that, in practice, comparisons are too often ‘rather loose or not formalized’ (Rihoux, 2006: p. 681), and Ahrend Lijphart’s observation that the comparative method appear

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Resolution of CCD Sampling Imaging,et Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as well as some alternative techniques. All CCM-related techniques conceive cases as configurations of attributes and are geared towards systematic cross-case analysis. QCA represents both a distinctive research approach, with its own aims and set of assumpt

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3396-5kers in one country (or state, city and so on) are somehow influenced by the choices made in other countries (or states, cities, and so on). For instance, consider the following exchange on ‘Big Society’, a project by David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, aiming to reinvigorate civil society in