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Two Levels, Two Strategies

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from predominantly concentrating on
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structures, such an analysis would then
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this being the third element put forward
by Putnam (1988) when investigating the
creation of large win-sets in two-level
games. This would then allow for the
testing of hypotheses in a comparative
setting; allowing for further confirmation
of the added value of policy process
theories and formal network analysis for
multilevel policy investigations.

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Data on Swiss national climate policy
decision making was gathered within
the framework of the following project
and funding body: “NCCR-Climate,”
supported by the Swiss National Science
Foundation. The authors would like to
thank the two anonymous reviewers and
Manuel Fischer for helpful comments
about content and format of this
manuscript.

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