This collection brings together disparate but individually significant papers on the subject of public policy, ensuring that all the developing threads in this field of work are identified and contextualised by a newly-written introductory essay.

Editor's Introduction: Comparative Public Policy

MichaelHill

Introduction

Increasingly writings on public policy involve comparative analysis, ranging from efforts to interpret policies in individual nation states in terms of typologies which contribute to the explanation of differences to studies which simply compare two or more nations in terms of the different ways in which particular policies have emerged and developed. This development may be seen as something that is being stimulated by the increasing mutual engagement of scholars from different countries and by a recognition that comparison can contribute to theory building. But it must also be seen as influenced by global influences upon nation states, supra-national collaborative policies, aid policies in which donors seek to influence policies in the countries supported and the development of regional political ...

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