What makes the patterns of government strategies similar and different during environmental conflicts?

In this chapter, a first comparative case study is reported. The interest is which conditions are important in explaining government strategies. To this end, three patterns of government strategies in governing environmental conflicts are first identified by distinguishing three substantive outcomes regarding the debated industrial plants: project continuation, project cancellation, and project relocation. In this chapter, both the method of agreement and the method of difference are used to compare the three patterns of government strategies. First, the method of agreement is used to identify which conditions are relatively important in explaining the same pattern of government strategies. Second, the method of difference is used to identify which conditions are crucial in explaining the differences in patterns of government strategies.