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DavidL.Swanson

As Livingstone recently observed, “It seems that without deliberate
strategies for comparison, it is difficult to recognize how taken-for-
granted aspects of everyday life may be distinctive while features con-
sidered nationally significant may in fact be shared with other coun-
tries. Thus comparative research aims to enhance understanding by
improvinganunderstandingofone’sowncountry,gainingknowledgeof
other countries and, perhaps most valuable, examining how common,
or transnational, processes operate in specific conditions in different
national contexts” (2001, 1).

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