Comparative Political Economy on the determinants of public policy in advanced capitalist countries

通过这个项目，我获得了以下成果：首先，我买了很多关于公共政策、福利国家、先进资本主义国家政治经济的书。其次，我收集了关于公共政策和福利国家的数据。第三，促进了对发达资本主义国家政治制度相关理论问题的理解。对于公共政策的比较研究，我学习了多元主义、新社团主义、二元论、国家主义、制度主义等理论，这些理论都是用来分析政治制度的。第四，我考察了公共政策和福利国家比较研究的方法论问题。过去经常使用回归技术进行跨国汇总数据分析，但现在的概念预示着比较研究的下一阶段是从历史角度分析关键或异常情况。第五，我了解到自八十年代中期以来，发达资本主义国家的公共政策发生了一些变化。一方面，新自由主义和新保守主义未能成功瓦解福利国家，另一方面，社会民主主义陷入困境，福利国家陷入停滞。最后，在这个项目期间，我出版了《自由民主政体分析》一书，其中一部分就是这个项目的成果。我还写了一篇题为《社团主义的出现》的论文，收录在《西方政治思想概论》一书中。然后我完成了论文《比较公共政策与比较政治经济学综述》。后两本专著的出版进度落后，因为其他撰稿人的专著的介绍推迟了。

I have gained the following results through this project.First, I have bought so many books which are concerned with the public policy, the welfare states, the political economy of advanced capitalist countries.Second, I have collected the data on the public policy and the welfare state.Third, I have promoted a better understanding about theoretical problems which are concerned with political regime in advanced capitalist countries. For comparative research on public policy, I have studied the theories like pluralism, neo-corporatism, dualism, statism, institutionalism which are used to analyze political regime.Forth, I have examined methodological problems of comparative research on public policy and welfare state. In the past cross-national aggregate data analysis by utilizing regression techniques was often used, but the notion is now foreshadowed that the next stage for comparative research is the analysis of critical or anomalous cases from a historical standpoint.Fifth, I have understood that there were some changes of the public policies in the advanced capitalist countries since the mid eightties. On the one hand neo-liberalism and neo-consevatism could not succeed in dismantling the welfare states, but on the other hand social democracy was in trouble andwelfare state was stagnant.Finally, during the term of this project I have published the book entitled The Analsis of Liberal Democratic Regime, the part of which was the result of this project. I also wrote the paper entitled The Appearance of Corporatism which was included in the book entitled An Introduction to Western Political Thoght. Then I completed my study in the paper entitled Review on Comparative Public Policy and Comparative Political Economy. The publications of the latter two monographs were behind because the presentations of monographs by other contributors were delayd.