Comparative Public Policy
Using the Comparative Method to Advance Our Understanding of the Policy Process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kuhika Gupta (0000-0002-6264-1423, University of Oklahoma, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | s1 |
| Pages | 11-26 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00443.x |
| OpenAlex | W1532218824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 76 |
Public policy scholars have stressed the importance and need for “comparing” since the 1970s—including comparing different policies, inputs, outputs, and outcomes across institutional settings. Broken down into three categories, this research note highlights recent work in comparative public policy. The first type of research is characterized by its use of the comparative method to answer two primary research questions: How do policies differ across countries, and why do they diverge? To do this, scholars in this category borrow from a myriad of literatures including economics, risk analysis, and cultural theory. The second and third categories of research add to this long‐existing stream of scholarly work by using the comparative method to advance our understanding of the policy process. To achieve this, research focusing on the theories of the policy process includes two emerging trends: comparing theories across institutional configurations (how differing institutional arrangements affect policies), and comparing theories to one another (how different theories of the policy process help explain certain issues). By highlighting these recent publications, the goal of this essay is to encourage scholars from all three categories to collaborate and provide a further impetus to the subfield of comparative public policy
Comparative case · Comparative method · Comparative research · Economics · Management science · Policy analysis · Policy Sciences · Policy studies · Political science · Positive economics · Process (computing · Public economics · Public policy · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Comparative Public Policy
Comparative Public Policy
Navigating Vulnerabilities
Lifting the smokescreen of science diplomacy
A policy-centred approach to inter-municipal cooperation
Water, Sanitation and Health
Policy Changes in China’s Family Planning
Power Relations in the Preparation of the Nondiscrimination Act
Redistributing power? Comparing the electrical system experiences in Chile and Brazil from a historical institutional perspective
Participation in Energy Transitions
A Comparative Analysis of Disability Policies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom Through the Lens of the Capability Approach
Comparative Politics and Comparative Policy Studies
Policy Change in Comparative Contexts
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Policy Processes
Beyond the Usual Suspects
Where Comparative Public Administration and Comparative Policy Studies Meet
A comparative policy analysis of Australian higher education institutions’ definitions of marking
Comparative assessment of the environmental education policies of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela
Tropical Forests and Sustainability
Studying local climate adaptation
United States and Canada pre-service teacher certification standards for student mental health
Fractured politics? The comparative regulation of shale gas in Europe
Advocacy coalitions or pragmatic coupling of streams? Explaining policy change in Mexico
Public Policy Yearbook
New Avenues for the Study of Agenda Setting
Public Policy Yearbook
The 2015 Public Policy Yearbook
Public Policy Yearbook
Policy Journal Trends and Tensions
Coalition Structures and Policy Change in a Consensus Democracy
Integrating collaborative governance theory with the Advocacy Coalition Framework
The rules of the game
Policy change and learning
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Degrees of Democracy
Small States in World Markets
Political Parties, Growth and Equality
The Spanish Welfare State in European Context
Six Countries, Six Health Reform Models? Health Care Reform in Chile, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and The Netherlands
Regulating Genetic Information in Germany and Israel
Mechanisms of Policy Change
The Influence of Institutions on Issue Definition
A Comparative Framework for Analyzing Urban Environmental Policy
Foes to Friends
Comparative Environmental Regulation in the United States and Russia
The Least Generous Welfare State? A Case of Blind Empiricism
Federalism and the Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnology in the United States and European Union
Introduction
National Case Studies and Cross-National Learning
Comparative Policy Entrepreneurship
Universities in the Knowledge Economy
Institutional Legitimacy in State–Market Partnership
State Policies and Private Higher Education in the USA
The Evolution of Policy Ideas
Comparative policy analysis
Man, the State and War
The Politics of Determining Merit Aid Eligibility Criteria
The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Postcommunist Europe
Political Institutions and Policy Performance
The creation of European regulatory agencies and its limits
Europeanization and domestic policy concertation
Bringing interests back in
Untangling the impact of Europeanization and globalization on national utility liberalization
Governance as contested logics of control
Risk, Regulation and Crisis
Do Advocacy Coalitions Matter? Crisis and Change in Swedish Nuclear Energy Policy
Navigating Institutional Change
Theories of the Policy Process
Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden
Policy Change and Policy Stasis
Comparing Forms of Comparative Analysis
Policy Theory, Policy Theory Everywhere
Comparative Public Policy
The Politics of Attention
Paths and Forks or Chutes and Ladders
Events, Public Discourses and Responsive Government
Politics and Privatization
Policy Punctuations in Mature Welfare States
Institutional Performance and Compliance with EU Law
Comparing the Dynamics of Change in Food Safety and Pharmaceutical Policy in Spain
Measuring Poverty
Stability and Punctuations in Public Spending
Modes of external governance
The role of independent regulatory agencies in policy-making
EU decision-making
The willing, the unwilling and the unable – explaining implementation of the EU Biofuels Directive
EU soft law and the functioning of representative democracy
The policy-opinion link and institutional change
Comparative Public Policy
From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
Content Matters
Reduction, Stasis, and Expansion of Budgets in Advanced Democracies
How Do Ideas Matter
Comparing Government Agendas
Comparative Studies of Policy Dynamics
Comparing Law-Making Activities in a Quasi-Federal System of Government
A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets
Punctuated Equilibrium in Comparative Perspective
Scaling Down
II. The Comparable-Cases Strategy in Comparative Research
A Quarter Century of the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Causal Stories and the Formation of Policy Agendas
Non-owners' success
Social Construction of Target Populations
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |