ABSTRACT
Most studies of comparative politics involve identifying both similarities and differences among the cases being investigated. There are also important comparisons to be made across time, with continuity and change providing important information about the political systems being studied. The present study of the rewards for high public office is not different. Many of the expectations we had when we began the research were fulfilled, and the research reinforced the findings that came from an earlier study of these rewards in Europe and North America (Hood and Peters 1994). Many of the countries that had offered high rewards for public officials continue to do so. Likewise, the tendency to reward members of parliament somewhat less than other members of the political and administrative elite has persisted from the 1980s until the present and has to some extent accelerated.
