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This chapter applies a comparative lens to the politics of corporate board equality policy in action through a focus on the specific mix and ambition of the policy tools and their outcomes with regards to the numerical success of the policy—the increase of women on corporate boards. The argument is made that numerical progress can only be made through combining mandates and recommendations through a trade-off between regulatory ambition, scope, and coerciveness. In the first part of this chapter, the politics of regulating equality on corporate boards are assessed for the four types of regulatory trajectories and their outputs. The next part identifies three common trends found across all of the fifteen country cases in the politics of policy implementation regardless of regulatory approach or regional placement of a given country. In the third part, the focus is on the policy mix for successful numerical outcomes. In the conclusion the four major findings of the comparative analysis about what works and why are presented for success by the numbers.

International audience; This policy brief presents the findings of GEPP-France – seven case analyses of gender equality policy implementation -- to identify in a systematic comparative manner the factors, or “ingredients”, for gender equality policy success. Through using the Gender Equality Policy in Practice model and approach in conducting fine grained qualitative case analyses, the 18 policy experts and the comparative analysis of those cases presented in this brief contribute to moving towards an evidence-based recipe for gender equality success for policy practitioners, advocates, decisionmakers, activists and scholars alike. The findings point to the key role of the forms of implementation in determining policy success.

This paper investigates the development and adoption of governance modes in the field of human biotechnology. As the field of human biotechnology is relatively new, voluntary professional self-regulation constituted the initial governing mode. In the meantime, with the exception of Ireland, all Western European countries have moved towards greater state intervention. Nevertheless they have done so in contrasting ways and the resulting governance modes for assisted reproductive technology (ART) and embryonic stem-cell research vary greatly. Instead of imposing their steering capacity in a ‘top-down’ fashion, governments have taken pre-existing self-regulatory arrangements in the field into account and built up governance mechanisms in conjunction with private actors and pre-existing modes of private governance. Our analysis demonstrates that the form and content of the initial self-regulation explain why the self-steering capacity of the medical profession was largely or at least partially preserved through hybrid governance systems in Britain and in Germany, while in France the self-regulation was entirely replaced by governmental intervention.

URL : http://www.polittrends.ch/abstimmungen/abstimmungsanalysen/vox-analysen/062105f.html; Analyse du comportement électoral lors de la votation fédérale suisse du 21 mai 2006 portant sur la réforme constitutionnelle de l'éducation. Analyse de la décision de vote et de la participation électorale

Analyse du débat parlementaire suisse sur la libéralisation de l'avortement

URL : http://www.polittrends.ch/abstimmungen/abstimmungsanalysen/vox-analysen/050506f.html; Analyse quantitative du résultat des votations populaires suisses du 5 juin 2005: votes populaires sur les Accords Schengen/Dublin et sur la loi sur le partenariat enregistré (PACS)

Analyse quantitative du résultat des votations fédérales suisses du 7 février 2003: votes populaires sur l'extention de la démocratie directe (introduction au niveau fédéral de l'initiative légisislative générale) et sur la réforme de la participation cantonale au financement des coûts hospitaliers.