On the Applicability of the Most Similar Systems Design and the Most Different Systems Design in Comparative Research

By Carsten Anckar. 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Meijerink
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3. P. Knoepfel
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2. J. Dupuis
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Citations in the corpus

• The Adaptation Policy Paradox : the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation (2013, methodology): “Second, we verified whether the relationships observed were robust to situational variation in the context of implementation, by conducting the same analysis on a very different case that was chosen in an industrialized country with high adaptive capacity (Anckar 2008).”
• Research, part of a Special Feature on Realizing Water Transitions: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Water Policy Change Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons from Sixteen Case Studies of Water Transitions around the Globe (2010, background): “A complementary approach would be a most similar systems approach that aims at explaining different outcomes (in our case, either major policy change or stability) within very similar systems (Anckar 2008).”