In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries.
This volume offers an encompassing assessment of major methodological challenges in comparative public policy. The chapters provide highly instructive insights and ideas on how to improve the design and research programs in comparative policy studies. This way, the book will significantly help to advance the state-of-the art in this field especially with regard to theory-building and theory-testing. -- Christoph Knill, University of Munich
This new book merits attention by anyone interested in comparative studies of public policy, in particular students and scholars thinking seriously about how to design a research project or evaluate an existing literature. The editors have brought together a stellar group of experts in the full range of methodologies associated with cross national studies of public policy, from case studies to large quantitative studies, from gendering public policy to expanding the empirical base of knowledge away from western societies, from QCA to mixed methods. In sum, this is one-stop shopping for an overview of the state of the art in comparative studies of public policy. -- Frank R Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Isabelle Engeli is Professor of Public Policy, University of Exeter.
Christine Rothmayr Allison is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal. Her fields of interest are comparative courts and politics and comparative public policy, where she studies policies in the field of biotechnology, biomedicine and higher education.
John S Ahlquist is Associate Professor of political science, Trice Family faculty scholar, and H. I. Romnes Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is also a research affiliate in political economy at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Sophie Biesenbender is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Berlin, Germany.
Joachim Blatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He has previously held positions at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, the University of Konstanz, Germany, Free University Berlin, Germany, and the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests include transformations of governance, citizenship, and democracy.
Christian Breunig is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Ben Cashore is Professor of Environmental Governance and Political Science and Director of the Governance, Environment, and Markets Initiative at Yale (GEM).
Fabrizio Gilardi is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science in the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Markus Haverland is Professor of Political Science, Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and lectures on methodology at the Dutch Graduate School for Public Administration and Political Science (NIG) there. Amongst his previous positions was a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence. His research interests include methodology, European Union policy-making, and the effect of the European Union on its member states.
Adrienne Héritier is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Social Science and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.
Season Hoard is a postdoctoral research coordinator for the Division of Governmental Studies and Services and an adjunct instructor at Washington State University.
Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He works on public-policy theory, with a special interest in resource and environmental policy. His most recent book is Canadian Public Policy: Selected studies in process and style (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013).
Benoît Rihoux is a full professor in Comparative Politics at UCLouvain, where he chairs the Centre for political science and comparative politics. His substantive research interests comprise, among others, political parties, organisational change, social movements and gender and politics. He plays a leading role in the development of configurational comparative methods and
QCA and coordinates the interdisciplinary COMPASS network in that field.
Jeroen van der Heijden is Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance at both the Australian National University (Regulatory Institutions Network, RegNet) and the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Law School).
Joseph Wong is the Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science.
Dvora Yanow is a Professor in Wageningen University’s Department of Social Sciences, Communication, Philosophy, and Technology Subdepartment and Professor of Organizational Studies at Keele University.
