The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent
years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In …

Over the last decade, policy transfer has emerged as an important concept within public
policy analysis, guiding both theoretical and empirical research spanning many venues and …

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 …

All politics and policy issues involve the accumulation of data about problems and solutions
in context of social interactions. Drawing on these data, policy actors acquire, translate, and …

This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new
articulation of its political dimensions. Policy diffusion means that policies in one unit …

The spread of Covid-19 and the variety of government responses opens space for policy
learning. Traditional policy analysis tools would lead us to explain policy variation using …

International interdependence is at the core of the international relations discipline, which is
premised upon the fact that states interact with one another and examines the nature …

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 …

A growing literature in public policy, comparative politics and international relations has
studied how the policies of one unit (eg country, federal state or city) are influenced by the …

Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations
with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of …