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Comparing Comparative Policy Studies — A Path Towards Integration?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jürgen Feick
Jürgen Feick
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne*
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Abstract

This paper tries to integrate and generalise research results from selected comparative policy studies in the fields of economic, social, educational, environmental and health and safety policies. The countries included are Britain, Sweden and the United States. The concepts of institutional and organisational structure, culture orientation and policy style are applied in order to develop descriptive taxonomies to suggest how these factors might influence ultimate policy outputs.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 257 - 285
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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