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Compound Comparative Analysis: Motivations for Country and Sector Selection and Methods

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This book uses qualitative case study research to analyze the processes and factors related to CPI in two very different sectors—land use change and forestry (LUCF) and energy—across two emerging economies, Indonesia and Mexico. The logic of comparison follows a most different systems design across these sectors and applies a compound approach: Comparative results across sectors are then compared across countries to understand whether variations and specific concatenations still hold true or not. CPI is analyzed in each of the cases on two levels that play a role in integration, i.e., the political sphere and the public administration level. Methods include semi-structured interviews, process tracing as well as an iterative approach between data and hypotheses to identify causal mechanisms to explain CPI.

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    Namely Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey.

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    This section refers to both energy and LUCF sectors, when sectoral policy is mentioned.

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    This was different on lower levels of the public administration, where government officials generally were forthcoming in providing comprehensive information.

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von Lüpke, H. (2022). Compound Comparative Analysis: Motivations for Country and Sector Selection and Methods. In: Climate Policy Integration. Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18927-2_3

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