Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

Complimentary Access to Special Issue Introductory Articles 2005-2010

Published in Association with the ICPA-Forum: www.jcpa.ca

Special Issues include:

Comparative Healthcare Policies

Ted Marmor, Yale University, USA

Christine Rothmayr-Allison, University of Montreal, Canada

Mee Kam Ng, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Special Issues are triple blind-fold reviewed as with all contributions to the JCPA

Editor-in-Chief and Founder:
Iris Geva-May, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Co-editors:
Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA

The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice aims to stimulate the further intellectual development of comparative policy studies and the growth of an international community of scholars in the field. It gives priority to comparative studies that:

1. Contribute to comparative theory development;

2. Present theory-based empirical research;

3. Offer comparative evaluations of research methods;

4. Derive the practice implications of theory-based research;

5. Use conceptual heuristics to interpret practice;

6. Draw lessons based on circumstances in which compared policy related issues have in common certain manipulable policy, program or institutional variables.

Published five times per year, the JCPA is the only explicit journal of comparative policy analytical studies.