The bibliography contains literature in the field of internationally comparative policy research up to 1989, with some exceptions going beyond this publication year. Beside research on conceptual and methodological questions of comparative policy research, specific policy sectors have been...

The EC harmonized market entry regulation for pharmaceuticals from the early sixties on, but it achieved neither its goal of uniform national regulatory decisions nor that of automatic mutual recognition. Subsequent attempts to Europeanize the procedures themselves resulted in two alternatives...