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Top-down pressure and bottom-up responses: a study on provincial Governments’ adoption and textual reproduction of sports industry policies in China [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living
National policy documents, as the starting point of the “document transmission chain”, are often directional and instructive in content. Provincial governments, as transmitters of these policies, possess more precise localized decentralized knowledge and
Zhiliang Li, Jingjing Zhou, Jian Liu
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Backlash policy diffusion to populists in power. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
We analyze how parties respond programmatically to populist parties in power abroad. Political parties often copy the policies of governing parties in other countries-a phenomenon that contributes to waves of transnational policy diffusion. We report the
James F Adams   +3 more
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Party Policy Diffusion [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 2016
Do parties learn from or emulate parties in other political systems? This research develops the argument that parties are more likely to employ the heuristic of learning from and emulatingforeign successful (incumbent) parties. Spatial-econometric analyses of parties’ election policies from several established democracies robustly confirm that ...
Böhmelt, Tobias   +3 more
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Detecting causality in policy diffusion processes. [PDF]

open access: yesChaos, 2016
A universal question in network science entails learning about the topology of interaction from collective dynamics. Here, we address this question by examining diffusion of laws across US states. We propose two complementary techniques to unravel determinants of this diffusion process: information-theoretic union transfer entropy and event ...
Grabow C   +3 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014
Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations.
Gordon C Shen
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A study on synergistic development of urban digitalization and greening under the diffusion of low-carbon pilot policies [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Low-carbon pilot policies, as comprehensive environmental strategies, provide a valuable perspective for examining the integrated development of urban digitalization and environmental sustainability.
Jingyuan Zhang, Jinguang Guo
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Institutional Determinants of Neoliberal Policies: A Cross-national Analysis of the Effects of Political Institutions on Stock Exchange Adoption [PDF]

open access: yesYönetim ve Organizasyon Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
Diffusion research has clearly demonstrated that international processes are responsible for widespread adoption of neoliberal policies but retained a limited grasp of internal factors that enhance or undermine the ability of countries to adopt diffusing
Meltem Özge Özcanlı, Çetin Önder
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Closer than they look at first glance: A systematic review and a research agenda regarding measurement practices for policy learning

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2021
Learning is a cognitive and social dynamic through which diverse types of actors involved in policy processes acquire, translate and disseminate new information and knowledge about public problems and solutions.
Pierre Squevin   +3 more
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Determinants of Policy Diffusion in Brazil and the U.S.

open access: yesInternational Review of Public Policy, 2021
This paper comparatively examines two highly decentralized federations, namely Brazil and the United States (U.S.) The study uses a combination of methods to determine which mechanisms explain the spread of metropolitan regions (Brazil) and the growth of
Denilson Bandeira Coêlho
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Brothers in Arms? How Neoliberalism Connects North and South Higher Education: Finland and Portugal in Perspective

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
This paper puts in perspective the reforms of the Portuguese and Finnish higher education (HE) sectors in the light of the role intergovernmental organisations have—especially the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—in ...
Sara Margarida Diogo, Teresa Carvalho
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