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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 +3 more
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Determinants of Policy Diffusion in Brazil and the U.S.
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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Improving the understanding of electric vehicle technology and policy diffusion across countries
Transport Policy, 2021 The transport sector is particularly difficult to decarbonize. Use of electric vehicles (EV)—a potentially transformative and sustainable transport technology—can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, domestic fossil fuel demand, energy import dependency, and
C. Zimm
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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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Theorizing policy diffusion: from a patchy set of mechanisms to a paradigmatic typology
Journal of European Public Policy, 2021 In recent decades, we have witnessed the diffusion of policy diffusion studies across many sub-disciplines of political science. Four mechanisms of policy diffusion—learning, competition, emulation and coercion—have become widely accepted as explanations
Joachim Blatter +2 more
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Policy Studies Journal, 2021 Although the diffusion of policy innovations can promote sustainability, how this process can be accelerated remains unclear. I address this gap by conceptualizing policy transfer and policy diffusion using the multiple streams framework (MSF) and ...
N. Goyal
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Policy Diffusion and Polarization across U.S. States
The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 Economists have studied the impact of numerous state laws, from welfare rules to voting ID requirements. Yet for all this policy evaluation, what do we know about policy diffusion—how these policies are introduced and spread from state to state?
Stefano Dellavigna, WooJin Kim
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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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Policy diffusion and european public policy research [PDF]
, 2018 The vast and growing policy diffusion literature analyzes how policy-making in one jurisdiction—be it a country or a subnational unit—is influenced by prior policy decisions in other jurisdictions. Rather surprisingly, Europe remains an understudied area
Wasserfallen, Fabio
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