Policy Alteration: Rethinking Diffusion Processes When Policies Have Alternatives.
Most studies of policy interdependence try to observe international policy networks by focusing on the diffusion of a specific policy across countries. Thus, if that policy is not adopted from one country to the next, researchers usually treat that as a sign of weak interdependence and the lack of d...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 236 - 253 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2017
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