The past two decades have seen a wealth of papers on policy diffusion and policy transfer.
In the first half, this paper reviews some of the trends in the literature by looking backwards …

In this review, we portray findings and conceptualizations of selected empirical studies on
policy convergence and related concepts. The article reveals that there is no homogenous …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very
different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

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 …

This article takes as its starting point the observation that neoliberalism is a concept that is
'oft-invoked but ill-defined'. It provides a taxonomy of uses of the term neoliberalism to …

This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/knowledge transfer processes
to suggest a dynamic for the transnationalization of policy results. The paper seeks to …

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