ABSTRACT
This chapter examines governance change using a comparative approach. Understanding this requires a framework that is capable of producing an analysis of major shifts that can be empirically tracked over time, in dierent policy sectors and nations. This is a task that requires a concerted eort to avoid generating either a meta-level analysis where the results are too abstract, or an analysis that is swamped by too much detail. A starting point for achieving the desired balance of parsimony and richness is that such an analysis should rest on a comparison of a single or a small number of policy sectors, and one or a small number of nations. Here, a single policy sector is examined for two nations.
