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Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Research Examples -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Why Compare Public Policies? -- The History of Comparative Public Policy -- Defining Comparative Public Policy Research -- Countries as Units of Comparison -- Other Bigger, Smaller and Different Units of Comparison -- Can Individual Case Studies be Comparative? -- Comparing Public Policies in an Interconnected World -- Summary -- 2 How Governments Act: Policy Instruments and Their Use -- Public Policy Resources -- How Governments Act: Policy Instruments -- Policy Instruments as Coercive and Direct -- Internal (and External) Policy Instruments -- Policy Instruments as Linked to Different Outputs -- Deductive Approaches to Policy Instruments -- The Approach Adopted in this Book -- Trends in the Use of Policy Instruments -- The Scope of Public Policies -- Public Policy Actors -- Public Policy Targets -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 3 Doing Comparative Public Policy -- Choices in Comparative Research -- Challenges for Comparative Public Policy Research -- The Practicalities of Comparative Research -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 4 Interests and Public Policy -- What are Interests? -- Different Interest-based Approaches -- Challenges for Researching Interests in Comparative Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 5 Ideas and Public Policy -- What are Ideas? -- Ideas-based Approaches to Explaining Public Policy -- Attempts to Synthesize Different Approaches -- Challenges for Researching Ideas in Comparative Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 6 Institutions and Public Policies -- What are Institutions? -- Institution-based Approaches to Explaining Public Policy -- Challenges for Researching Institutions in Comparative Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Summary.