Methods of the Policy Process

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<P>The increasingly global study of policy processes faces challenges with scholars applying theories in radically different national and cultural contexts. Questions frequently arise about how to conduct policy process research comparatively and among this global community of scholars. <EM>Methods of the Policy Process</EM> is the first book to remedy this situation, not by establishing an orthodoxy or imposing upon the policy process community a rigid way of conducting research but, instead, by allowing the leading researchers in the different theoretical traditions a space to share the means by which they put their research into action. </P><P>This edited volume serves as a companion volume and supplemental guide to the well-established <EM>Theories of the Policy Process, 4th Edition</EM>. <EM>Methods of the Policy Process</EM> acknowledges that growth and advancement in the study of the policy process is dependent not merely on conceptual and theoretical development, but also on de