An Integrated Model of Legal Transplantation: The Diffusion of Intellectual Property Law in Developing Countries.
Why do some countries adopt exogenous rules into their domestic law when those rules contravene their specific interests? We draw on the policy-diffusion literature to identify four causal mechanisms that we hypothesize explain the adoption of such rules. While existing literature treats these mecha...
| Published in: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 781 - 793 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2014
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