When you have cross-national issues it takes time to sort these things out,' he said.

Tobacco control was seen as a national and cross-national issue.

In recent years, there have been more developments of cross-national studies.

Thus a cross-national study can tell us something at a more general level about how public enterprises 'work'.

As the result of globalization, now there are so many cross-national businesses.

Most past research, including my own, has focused on managing cross-national diversity.

Cross-national studies of depression are both rare and difficult to interpret.

It risks bringing in other forces into this matter that could lead to a cross-national war.

The findings of studies based on cross-national comparisons are not very consistent.

On the other hand are global public goods with benefits and costs that have a wide cross-national impact.

Cross-national patterns of income change and benefit decay in old age.

In addition we need valid and cross-national information on the labour market position of people with disabilities.

Let us now consider the more typical cross-national evidence.

This research examines the growth of the private market in health care using historical and cross-national perspectives.

Cross-national variations are examined with reference to a number of specific policy areas.

Ensuring greater access in the European context may require cross-national measures.

The same pattern has been observed in cross-national data.

Professor Williamson has also written widely on cross-national social indicator research.

Feel free to pass this e-mail on to colleagues with interests in cross-national research methodology.

His specialties are population studies and cross-national analyses of democratization.

A Europe-wide process will greatly help both national and cross-national responses.

The programme also gives opportunities for cross-national comparison and inter-change.

A cross-national study found seventy different systems in twenty-seven democracies.

A second step could be to do a cross-national comparison of service use and unmet needs in countries with different mental health care systems.

The final example is also a cross-national one.