Comparing Government Activity
Published on 27. March 1996
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-64412-6 (ISBN)
Description
The comparative analysis of government activity raises many methodological, theoretical and substantive problems. In this volume authors drawn from varied subfields of political science address some of these problems, including: the usefulness of expenditure data, case interdependence, the issue of non-decision, the measurement of the distribution of power through laws, methodological individualism, cultural explanations, politico-economic interactions, the usefulness of textual analysis and issues of accumulation and aggregation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figures, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-64412-6 (9780333644126)
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Louis M. Imbeau | Robert D. McKinlay
Comparing Government Activity
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07/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; L.M.Imbeau - Throwing Money and Heaving Bodies: Heuristic Calisthenics for Comparative Policy Buffs; A.J.Heidenheimer - Patterns of Post-War Expenditure Priorities in Ten Democracies; R.I.Hofferbert & I.Budge - Case Interdependence and Non-Activity in Response to Pressures for Activity; K.Armingeon - Laws and the Distribution of Power in Society; V.Lemieux - Comparative Textual Analyses of Government and Party Activity: The Work of the Manifesto Research Group; I.Budge & R.I.Hofferbert - The Suitability of Several Models for Comparative Analysis of the Policy Process; P.A.Sabatier - Methodological Individualism and the U-Shaped Curve: Some Theoretical Guidelines for the Comparative Analysis of Public Policy; H.Milner - Politico-Economic Models and the Economic Theory of Government Behaviour: Some Problems and Results; J-D.Lafay - The Developmental State: Governance, Comparison and Culture in the 'Third World'; C.Clapham - Accumulation, Aggregation, and Eclecticism in Political Science: A Case Study of Foreign Policy Analysis; R.D.McKinlay - Index