Comparing Government Activity

List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; L.M.Imbeau - Throwing Money and Heaving Bodies: Heuristic Calisthenics for Comparative Policy Buffs; A.J.Heidenheimer - Patterns of Post-War Expenditure Priorities in Ten Democracies; R.I.Hofferbert & I.Budge - Case Interdependence and Non-Activity in Response to Pressures for Activity; K.Armingeon - Laws and the Distribution of Power in Society; V.Lemieux - Comparative Textual Analyses of Government and Party Activity: The Work of the Manifesto Research Group; I.Budge & R.I.Hofferbert - The Suitability of Several Models for Comparative Analysis of the Policy Process; P.A.Sabatier - Methodological Individualism and the U-Shaped Curve: Some Theoretical Guidelines for the Comparative Analysis of Public Policy; H.Milner - Politico-Economic Models and the Economic Theory of Government Behaviour: Some Problems and Results; J-D.Lafay - The Developmental State: Governance, Comparison and Culture in the `Third World'; C.Clapham - Accumulation, Aggregation, and Eclecticism in Political Science: A Case Study of Foreign Policy Analysis; R.D.McKinlay - Index