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The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to two substantial problems in the comparative analysis of government activities which are frequently ignored in most international comparisons of public policy. Most comparative analyses are based implicitly or explicitly on one or the other of the following assumptions: that the cases being compared, national political systems and national policy-making, are independent; or that governments, when pressured to produce policies, typically respond. Drawing on a comparative study of procedural regulation of collective labour relations (Armingeon 1994), it will be argued that cases are not independent and that pressure for government activity is a necessary but not sufficient condition for government activity.
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Armingeon, K. (1996). Case Interdependence and Non-Activity in Response to Pressures for Activity. In: Imbeau, L.M., McKinlay, R.D. (eds) Comparing Government Activity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24533-8_4
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