Policy learning in Europe: the open method of co-ordination and laboratory federalism.
This paper analyses the potential of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) and of laboratory federalism for policy innovation and learning in a multi-level system of jurisdictions. Our analysis shows that both can be seen as institutions that establish processes of generating and spreading new know...
| Publicado en: | Journal of European Public Policy Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 227 - 248 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2007
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