General & Miscellaneous Public Policies, General & Miscellaneous Government Types, Governmental Finances & Fiscal Policies
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Straddling the gap between studies of methodology and reports of actual findings, 11 essays consider some of the major methodological, theoretical, and substantive problems policy analysts encounter when doing comparative research. Among them are the utility of expenditure data; case interdependence; the problem of non-decision, methodological individualism and neo- corporatism, the usefulness of textual analysis, using laws to measure the distribution of political power, and cultural explanations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 1, 1996
Publisher
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312158460