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National Styles and Policy Sectors: Explaining Structured Variation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Gary P. Freeman
Gary P. Freeman
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Political Science, University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract

A vigorous tradition in comparative politics argues that national policymakers develop characteristic and durable methods for dealing with public issues, that these can be linked to policy outcomes, and that they can be systematically compared. More recently, a number of scholars have suggested reversing the direction of causality, claiming that the nature of political issues themselves causes the politics associated with them. This policy sector approach implies that there should be cross-national similarities in the way issues are treated, whatever the styles particular nations adopt. The two approaches need to be integrated into a common framework built around a research strategy that investigates policymaking within specific sectors across multiple national cases. Such an approach can transcend the often sterile debate over whether the policies of nations are unique or are converging by seeking to explain how the nature of issues structures the variation among the policies of nations.

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Journal of Public Policy , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 467 - 496
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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