History and Context in Comparative Public Policy. (book reviews)

More than anything, what is manifested here is the difference between a collection of lovely essays and a lovely collection of essays. These 15 essays (a third from the editor's own pen) are grouped loosely into three sections: "In Search of Time," "In Search of Context" and "In Search of Agency." The aspiration is to produce a postpositivist--if not quite postmodernist--style of policy analysis, one more historically and cross-culturally sensitive than is traditional among certain sorts of data-driven students of comparative public policy.

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