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Comparing Government Activity

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Louis M. Imbeau

    1. Laval University, Quebec, Canada

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  2. Robert D. McKinlay

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Comparative Observation of Government Activity

    • Louis M. Imbeau
    Pages 1-12

  3. Throwing Money and Heaving Bodies: Heuristic Callisthenics for Comparative Policy Buffs

    • Arnold J. Heidenheimer
    Pages 13-25

  4. Patterns of Post-War Expenditure Priorities in Ten Democracies

    • Richard I. Hofferbert, Ian Budge
    Pages 26-47

  5. Case Interdependence and Non-Activity in Response to Pressures for Activity

    • Klaus Armingeon
    Pages 48-69

  6. Laws and the Distribution of Power in Society

    • Vincent Lemieux
    Pages 70-81

  7. Comparative Textual Analyses of Government and Party Activity: The Work of the Manifesto Research Group

    • Ian Budge, Richard I. Hofferbert
    Pages 82-100

  8. The Suitability of Several Models for Comparative Analysis of the Policy Process

    • Paul A. Sabatier
    Pages 101-117

  9. Methodological Individualism and the U-Shaped Curve: Some Theoretical Guidelines for the Comparative Analysis of Public Policy

    • Henry Milner
    Pages 118-138

  10. Politico-Economic Models and the Economic Theory of Government Behaviour: Some Problems and Results

    • Jean-Dominique Lafay
    Pages 139-158

  11. The Developmental State: Governance, Comparison and Culture in the ‘Third World’

    • Christopher Clapham
    Pages 159-178

  12. Accumulation, Aggregation and Eclecticism in Political Science: A Case Study of Foreign Policy Analysis

    • Robert D. McKinlay
    Pages 179-197

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 198-205
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laval University, Quebec, Canada

    Louis M. Imbeau

  • Lancaster University, UK

    Robert D. McKinlay

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