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Methodological Individualism and the U-Shaped Curve: Some Theoretical Guidelines for the Comparativactivities are concerned with (public) policy, and, like the other contributors to this volume, I am interested in making sense of these activities. We are engaged in what is thus best identified as comparative public policy (CPP) analysis, a field in the continual process of defining itself. In thi

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Accumulation, Aggregation and Eclecticism in Political Science: A Case Study of Foreign Policy Analce has grown enormously. The principal concern of this chapter is focused on an important aspect of the status of the knowledge produced by this increased volume of research. Rather than surveying the discipline as a whole, this chapter concentrates, for illustrative purposes only, on a particular s