scholarly journals Learning as a Necessary but Not Sufficient Condition for Major Health Policy Change: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Combining ACF and MSF

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils C. Bandelow ◽  
Colette S. Vogeler ◽  
Johanna Hornung ◽  
Johanna Kuhlmann ◽  
Sebastian Heidrich
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Major Health

The Limits of Demand-Side Explanations

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Alasdair R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Veto Players ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Eu Policies

This chapter presents the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of all twenty-three EU policies that were successfully challenged before the WTO with reasonable periods to comply expiring before the end of 2019 and for which policy change was necessary for compliance. The chapter discusses how the conditions associated with compliance in the literature—the power of the complainant, the nature of the policy, and the number of veto players—are operationalized. The QCA finds that none of the conditions were necessary for compliance. It does, however, suggest (in line with expectations) that trade policy was sufficient for prompt and sufficient policy change. Contrary to expectations, however, the QCA strongly suggests that the power of the complainant was not associated with policy change. The analysis also found no association between the number of veto players and policy change. The QCA, therefore, contradicts the demand-side explanation of compliance and is consistent with the supply-side explanation. The chapter explores why the power of the complainant is not associated with policy change. It also contextualizes and justifies the case studies.

Explaining accountability for public policies: an fsQCA analysis of health policy in Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ixchel Pérez Durán ◽  
Jorge Rodríguez Menés
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Ideological Position ◽  
Private Management ◽  
Health Policy Implementation

Which conditions foster accountability for health policy implementation in Spain’s 17 regional governments? We analyze five conditions: private management of health services, political salience of health policies, governments’ left ideological position, strong presence of non-statewide parties, and minority governments. We use fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to identify how necessary and/or sufficient these conditions are (alone or in combination) to foster accountability. We find that there is no single recipe to ‘cook’ accountability. Three conditions appear to be ‘quasi-necessary’ but must be combined with others to foster accountability, thus defining three routes to accountability. The implications of the findings are discussed in light of current debates on the effects of decentralization, left-right ideologies, and privatization, on accountability for public policies.

scholarly journals What drives policy change for REDD+? A qualitative comparative analysis of the interplay between institutional and policy arena factors

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki ◽  
Maria Brockhaus ◽  
Jenniver Sehring ◽  
Monica Di Gregorio ◽  
Samuel Assembe-Mvondo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Policy Arena

Legal Mobilization and the Transformation of State-Society Relations in South Korea in the Realm of Disability Policy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste L. Arrington
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Legal Mobilization ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Changing Patterns

Since the 1990s, South Koreans have gained better access to the courts as a channel for pursuing social and policy change. In particular, Koreans with disabilities began using the courts to challenge discrimination, enforce their rights, and influence policymaking. Through qualitative comparative analysis of recent legal mobilization by Koreans with disabilities, this chapter investigates factors that influence when and why people mobilize the law. Drawing on sociolegal and social movement theories, it shows that explanations focused on evolving legal opportunity structures – encompassing procedural rules, statutes, and legal interpretations – can only partly explain changing patterns in legal mobilization. Explanations should also consider the ‘support structures’ for legal mobilization: lawyers, advocacy organizations, and funding.

(Un)certainty in the Knowledge Society

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 613-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateja Rek ◽  
Matej Makarovič ◽  
Matjaž Škabar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Relationship

In this article we make an attempt to examine the relationship between knowledge society and perception of uncertainty both at conceptual as well as empirical level. The discussion is placed in the context of late modernity. The more optimistic views see in the knowledge society the possibility for progress, higher quality and safety of life. Other reflections draw attention also to different crisis-related tendencies and stress the possibility of generating uncertainty as a possible side effect of a developed knowledge society. We observe two trends that appear with the development of a knowledge society: the perception of existing certainty increases, but at the same time we can also see the increase of a desire for and openness to greater uncertainty in a society. Using qualitative comparative analysis we find that developed knowledge society is a sufficient condition for greater openness to uncertainty.

scholarly journals Do Labour Rights Matter for Export? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Pineapple Trade to the EU

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-105
Author(s):  
Annelien Gansemans ◽  
Deborah Martens ◽  
Marijke D’Haese ◽  
Jan Orbie
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
The Eu

Labour norms are increasingly considered in trade relations, but is the protection of labour standards a necessary condition for export to the EU? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis, based on countries that export pineapples to the EU, shows that labour standards protection matters in combination with distance, zero tariffs and institutional quality in a number of cases. However, for none of the cases was it a sufficient condition on its own for determining exports to the European market. Rather, we show that (1) having a zero tariff is necessary for a relatively large share of export to the EU, and (2) labour standards protection can make a difference when the institutional quality is weak in some African cases, in contrast to Latin American exporters.

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