Comparative Public Policy

Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle, UK.  Before entering academic life at the University of Reading he was a street-level bureaucrat in a local social assistance office. He later worked on research at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol on the implementation of social policy. Since retiring from Newcastle he has held part-time visiting professorships in London University at Goldsmiths College and Queen Mary College and also in the London School of Economics and the University of Brighton. His long-standing text The Public Policy Process reached its eighth edition in 2021 in a joint version with Frédéric Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoë Irving of the University of York.

• VOLUME ONE: GENERAL THEORIES AND METHODS Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart Systematic Process Analysis - Peter Hall When and How to Use It Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Public Policy Analysis - Benoit Rihoux, Ilona Rezsöhazy and Damien Bol An Extensive ReviewPART ONE: PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY Democracies - Arend Lijphart Forms, Performance and Constitutional Engineering The Effects of Negotiation Democracy - Klaus Armingeon A Comparative AnalysisNegotiation Democracy versus Consensus Democracy - Arend Lijphart Parallel Conclusions and Recommendations Lijphart Expanded - AdrianVatter Three Dimensions of Democracy in Advanced OECD Countries PART TWO: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES WITH MORE DETAILED INSTITUTIONAL FOCUSESInstitutions in Comparative Policy Research - Fritz Scharpf The Concept of Policy Style - Jeremy Richardson, Gunnel Gustafsson and Grant Jordan Not Odious but Onerous - Christopher Pollitt Comparative Public Administration Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective - Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters Politico-Administrative Systems - Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert The Key FeaturesPublic Administration in East Asia - Anthony Cheung Legacies, Trajectories and Lessons PART THREE: GLOBALIZATIONThe Causes of Globalization - Geoffrey Garrett Tracing Connections between Comparative Politics and Globalization - Jeff Haynes VOLUME TWO: POLICY SYSTEM TYPOLOGIES AND CROSS-CUTTING ISSUESWelfare-State Regimes - Gøsta Esping-Andersen Work, Welfare and Gender Equality - Alan Siaroff A New TypologyRethinking the Western Construction of the Welfare State - Alan Walker and Chack-Kie Wong Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? - Wil Arts and John Gelisen Welfare Regime Debate - Emanuele Ferragina and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser Past, Present, Futures? PART ONE: VARIETIES OF CAPITALISMExtract from Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage - Peter Hall and David Soskice Integrating Welfare and Production Typologies - Martin Schröder How Refinements of the Varieties of Capitalism Approach Call for a Combination of Welfare TypologiesPutting the Political back into Political Economy by Bringing the State back in yet again - VivienSchmidt Varieties of Capitalism - Kathleen Thelen Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity PART TWO: EUROPEAN UNIONCoping with Europe - Christoph Knill and Andrea Lenschow The Impact of British and German Administrations on the Implementation of EU Environment PolicyThe Implementation of EU Social Policy - Miriam Harlapp and Simone Leiber The ′Southern Problem′ RevisitedDoes Europeanization Lead to Policy Convergence? The Role of the Single Market in Shaping National Tax Policies - Achim Kemmerling PART THREE: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY OUTSIDE THE OECD ′CLUB′Welfare States in Developing Countries - Nita Rudra Unique or Universal? Degrees of Statehood - Christopher Clapham Global Welfare Regimes - Miriam Abu Sharkh and Ian Gough A Cluster Analysis The Politics of Public Spending in Post-Communist Countries - Romana Careja and Patrick Emmenegger Post-Communist Welfare Capitalisms - Alfio Cerami and Paul Stubbs Bringing Institutions and Political Agency back in VOLUME THREE: POLICY FIELDS: SOCIAL POLICYPART ONE: SOCIAL PROTECTIONSocial Assistance in OECD Countries - Ian Gough et al Public and Private Policy Change - Daniel Béland and Toshimitsu Shinkawa Pension Reform in Four Countries Comparative Political Economy of Long-Term Care for Elderly People - Takeshi Hieda Political Logic of Universalistic Social Care Policy Development The Introduction of Long-Term Care Policy Schemes - Hildegard Theobold and Kristine Kern Policy Development, Policy Transfer and Policy Change Family Policies in OECD Countries - Olivier Thévenon A Comparative Analysis Types of Public Family Support - Monika Mischke A Cluster Analysis of 15 European CountriesThe Political Economy of Child Care in OECD Countries - Giuliano Bonoli and Frank Reber Explaining Cross-National Variation in Spending and Coverage Rates PART TWO: HEALTH CAREWorlds of Welfare and the Health-Care Discrepancy - Clare Bambra Comparing Health Policy - Viola Burau and Robert Blank An Assessment of Typologies of Health Systems Six Countries, Six Health Reform Models? Health Care Reform in Chile, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and The Netherlands - Kieke Okma et alPART THREE: EDUCATIONReview Article - Marius Busemeyer and Christine Tranpusch Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education The Welfare State and Education - Gunther Hega and Karl Hokenmaier A Comparison of Social and Educational Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies Partisan Politics, the Welfare State and Three Worlds of Human-Capital Formation - Torben Iversen and John Stephens Higher-Education Policies and Welfare Regimes - Hans Pechar and Lesley Andres International-Comparative Perspectives Capitalist Systems, De-Industrialization and the Politics of Public Education - Carsten Jensen VOLUME FOUR: POLICY FIELDS: ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND OTHERSPART ONE: ECONOMIC POLICY, LABOUR-MARKET POLICY AND TAXATIONEconomic Performance and Institutions - Barbara Vis, Jaap Woldendorp and Hans Keman Capturing the Dependent VariableThe Political Economy of Active Labor-Market Policy - Giuliano Bonoli Europe and the Economic Crisis - Michel Lallement Forms of Labour-Market Adjustment and Varieties of Capitalism The Evolution of Policy Ideas - Sven Steinmo Tax Policy in the 20th Century Tax Policy in an Era of Internationalization - Duane Swank Explaining the Spread of Neo-Liberalism PART TWO: ENVIRONMENT POLICY Explaining National Environmental Performance - Daniel Fiorino Approaches, Evidence and Implications Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation - Sheila Jasanoff Capitalism, State Economic Policy and Ecological Footprint - Igu Özler and Brian Öbach An International-Comparative Analysis Trend-Setters in Environment Policy - Martin Janicke The Character and Role of Pioneer CountriesLeaders and Laggards in Environmental Policy - Duncan Lieffernink A Quantitative Analysis of Domestic Policy Outputs The Comparative Politics of Climate Change - Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom PART THREE: OTHER POLICY AREAS Comparative Analysis of Immigration Policies - Gary Freeman A RetrospectiveVarieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy - Herman Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke Old Welfare States and the New Politics of HousingHousing Conditions, States, Markets and Households - Michelle Norris and Henryk Domanski A Pan-European Analysis