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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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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.
Marsh, David, Sharman, Jason
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Private philanthropy or policy transfer? The transnational norms of the Open Society Institute [PDF]
, 2010 The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private operating and grant-making foundation that serves as the hub of the Soros Foundations Network, a group of autonomous national foundations around the world.
Stone, Diane
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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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Load Balancing in the Non-Degenerate Slowdown Regime [PDF]
, 2018 We analyse Join-the-Shortest-Queue in a contemporary scaling regime known as the Non-Degenerate Slowdown regime. Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) is a classical load balancing policy for queueing systems with multiple parallel servers.
Gupta, Varun, Walton, Neil
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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2019 Transnational policy transfer is a well‐documented phenomenon with studies from across many disciplines. However, the literature tends to over‐theorize but under‐operationalize what is transferred and how it is transferred.
Kidjie Saguin, Michael Howlett
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Understanding the adoption of Pay-for-performance in state governments: A diffusion theory approach
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2018 As various private sector practices have been introduced into the public sector, some were adopted without careful assessment of potential policy and management implications. One such example is the adoption of pay-for-performance (PFP).
Sangyub RYU +2 more
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Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models
Policy & Society, 2020 The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the circulation of policy and knowledge has become more dense and complex.
Diane Stone +2 more
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The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 Over the last five years, many states have sought to limit access to Medicaid by adopting restrictive policies. How can we reconcile this development with studies that imply that Medicaid should be insulated from policy backlash?
Richard C. Fording, Dana Patton
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