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Determinants of Policy Diffusion in Brazil and the U.S. [PDF]

International 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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Policy diffusion and policy transfer

Policy Studies, 2009
This article argues that the literatures on policy transfer and policy diffusion are complimentary, but need to focus more clearly on five key issues drawing insights from both literatures. First, work in each area can benefit from a greater focus on the changing interactions between the various mechanisms involved in diffusion/transfer.
David Marsh, J C Sharman
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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]

Frontiers 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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Institutional Determinants of Neoliberal Policies: A Cross-national Analysis of the Effects of Political Institutions on Stock Exchange Adoption [PDF]

Yönetim 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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Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion

The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2023
This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot’s visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process. We benchmark Diffusion Policy across 15 different tasks from 4 different robot manipulation benchmarks and find that it consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art robot learning
Cheng Chi 0001, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng 0003, Eric Cousineau, Yilun Du, Benjamin Burchfiel, Russ Tedrake, Shuran Song   +7 more
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Closer than they look at first glance: A systematic review and a research agenda regarding measurement practices for policy learning

International 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, David Aubin, Éric Montpetit, Stéphane Moyson   +3 more
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Party Policy Diffusion [PDF]

American 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, Ezrow, Lawrence, Lehrer, Roni, Ward, Hugh   +3 more
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Brothers in Arms? How Neoliberalism Connects North and South Higher Education: Finland and Portugal in Perspective

Social 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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Diffusion of Brazil’s food policies in international organisations: assessing the processes of knowledge framing

Policy & Society, 2020
This article focuses on the political dynamics shaping policy agendas and prescriptions in international organisations (IOs). It elucidates the interactions of Brazil’s state and non-state actors with international bureaucrats, and their role in framing ...
Carolina Milhorance
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Global mobility of microfinance policies

Policy & Society, 2020
Throughout the 1970s in South Asia and Latin America, there was a surge of experiences of offering small loans through innovative practices. Following these successes, the dissemination of microfinance institutions is seen all over the globe.
Beatriz Oikawa Cordeiro
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