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Environmental Research Letters, 2023 Ending the use of unabated coal power is a key climate change mitigation measure. However, we do not know how fast it is feasible to phase-out coal on the global scale. Historical experience of individual countries indicates feasible coal phase-out rates,
Vadim Vinichenko +4 more
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Carbon Pricing Under Pressure: Withering Markets?
Politics and Governance, 2022 Emissions trading systems (ETSs) are operating and developing in many regions and countries. Doubts have been raised about their effectiveness, but the global picture has many nuances, as the contributions to this thematic issue on carbon markets show ...
Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Jørgen Wettestad
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Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
Policy & Society, 2020 In the past decade, Brazil became a model for social policies, ‘exporting’ ideas and techniques to tackle issues on social participation, poverty and hunger mostly to Southern countries, but also to the Northern States.
Osmany Porto de Oliveira
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Why Singapore works: five secrets of Singapore’s success [PDF]
Public Administration and Policy, 2018 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain why Singapore is a success story today despite the fact that its prospects for survival were dim when it became independent in August 1965.
Jon S.T. Quah
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Active Travel Studies, 2022 One way to support active mobility is by the successful articulation and diffusion of new bike-infrastructure concepts. This paper studies the journey of one such concept in the Netherlands, namely the cycle highway, which nowadays is often referred to ...
Arnoud Lagendijk, Huub Ploegmakers
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Missing Calvo? Latin America’s love-hate relationship with the Investment Treaty Regime
Revista Conjuntura Austral, 2021 For decades, following the views of the Argentine legal scholar Carlos Calvo, Latin American countries avoided adopting international investment treaties. The Calvo doctrine established that disputes between foreign investors and the state should only be
Lucas Silva Amorim +2 more
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Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2022 This paper develops a unified model of policy diffusion to analyze the speed of adoption of statewide lockdown policies within a federal system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sharon Elhadad, Udi Sommer
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Mechanism of transforming the local experience in ecological product value realization into national policies: The case of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue, 2023 [Objective] The transformation of local experiences into national policies is an important topic in China’s public policy research. The existing research mainly focuses on the transformation and diffusion of economic and social policies, and lacks the ...
ZHU Xinhua, JIA Xinrui
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Epistemic Communities, Human Rights, and the Global Diffusion of Legislation against the Organ Trade
Social Sciences, 2016 Over the past several decades, over 100 countries have passed legislation banning commercial organ transplantation. What explains this rapid, global diffusion of laws? Based on qualitative data from in-depth interviews, historical analysis, and secondary
Fikresus Amahazion
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AgricultureAgricultural science and technology policies (ASTPs) have played a pivotal role in shaping agricultural innovation, sustainability, and cleaner production practices.
Xiaohe Liang +9 more
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