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Download or read book The Comparative History of Public Policy written by Francis Geoffrey Castles and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is distinctive about the public policy profiles of Australia, Germany, Israel, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States? Integrating a detailed historical examination of individual case studies with the structural analysis that emerges from a comparative approach, experts here contrast national policies by analyzing the extent to which each nation fits into patterns established in cross-national literature. The distinguished contributors include Manfred Schmidt, Michael Shalev, Theda Skocpol, T.J. Pempel, Goran Therborn, and Pat Dunleavy.