Comparive Analysis

Capano, G; Zito, AR; Toth, F; Rayner, J

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-07457-8_7

Comparive Analysis

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Anthony Zito

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Abstract

© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This chapter provides the comparative analytics of the complex dynamics of governance shifts, which have emerged from the four empirical chapters. It brings together the comparisons across policy sectors together with the analysis over time and across countries highlighted in the previous chapters. It studies the degree of governance convergence across both the case countries and the four policy sectors. It focuses on assessing the convergence by looking at the magnitude of change in the basket of policy tools each sector contains. The chapter then assesses the degree of convergence across sectors and countries in terms of the composition of the policy mix. After examining these outputs, the comparative analysis shifts more to an assessment of the process of governance change. The chapter assesses the degree of radical change. In order to get a sense of the importance of particular institutional factors (e.g. intergovernmental competition) and political factors (e.g. ideological tension), the chapter assesses the degree of conflict found in the governance evolution in the four sectors and six countries.