Comparative case studies : contrasting two budget institutions /

This case study aims to introduce students to the methods and the practice of comparative case studies, particularly in examining structures and institutions across national boundaries. It also introduces students to the relationships between the academic and practitioner fields, both in terms of ho...

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Main Author:	Chohan, Usman W. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019.
Series:	SAGE Research Methods. Cases.
Subjects:	Finance, Public > Case studies. Budget > Law and legislation > United States > Case studies. Budget > Law and legislation > Canada > Case studies. Finances publiques > Études de cas. Budget > Law and legislation. Finance, Public. Canada. United States. Case studies.
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Summary:	This case study aims to introduce students to the methods and the practice of comparative case studies, particularly in examining structures and institutions across national boundaries. It also introduces students to the relationships between the academic and practitioner fields, both in terms of how practitioner problems can inspire academic research and in terms of how comparative case studies can address significant practitioner challenges. Using the Legislative Budget Offices of Canada and the United States, the case shows how comparative case studies can help to revisit contested theories and make original contributions to the academic literature, such as the Presidentialisation Thesis of comparative political studies. To do so, it describes the process of comparing the evolution of institutions in two countries, with a view to examining the institutional, legal, and contextual factors that predicate their success (or lack thereof), as well as the structured power relationships that have persisted in those countries across time in ways that tacitly and overtly shape institutional agency. In this manner, it also visits the challenges that the comparative case studies approach presents and delineates some ways in which these may be surmounted.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781526466211 152646621X