John S. Ahlquist, University of Wisconsin, USA Sophie Biesenbender, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Germany Joachim Blatter, University of Lucerne, Switzerland Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz, Germany Ben Cashore, Yale University, USA Fabrizio Gilardi, University of Zurich, Switzerland Markus Haverland, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Adrienne Heritier, European University Institute, Italy Season Hoard, Washington State University, USA Michael Howlett,Simon Fraser University, USA and National University of Singapore Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University, USA Jeroen van der Heijden Australian National University and the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Benoit Rihoux, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Joseph Wong, University of Toronto, Canada Dvora Yanow, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
'This volume offers an encompassing assessment of major methodological challenges in comparative public policy. The chapters provide highly instructive insights and ideas on how to improve the design and research programs in comparative policy studies. This way, the book will significantly help to advance the state-of-the art in this field especially with regard to theory-building and theory-testing' Prof. Christoph Knill, University of Munich, Germany