Geographers and urban studies scholars tend to rely on policy mobilities approaches to
explain processes of policy spread, whereas political scientists and public policy scholars …

Much has been written in recent decades about the role of ideas in politics and public policy,
a trend that is also present in the more specific field of health care research. This is the case …

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of
welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and …

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) represent an innovation in social assistance policy by
conditioning welfare benefits on recipients' behaviors associated with human capital …

In this article, we argue that autocratic regimes are no less likely than democracies to adopt
old-age pensions, although autocratic programs are less universal in their coverage. Our …

The international environmental community and many donor countries have encouraged
developing countries to adopt renewable energy (RE) policies that will encourage low …

Building on a critical engagement with the diffusion literature, this article introduces a refined
model of diffusion that sheds light on crucial but so far neglected aspects of the diffusion …

Coronaviruses have emerged as a potential disruptive force in policymaking. Using a
comparative case study method, we examine two social policy responses in Jakarta …

Comparative welfare state research is directed mainly toward the development of welfare
states in advanced democracies, although the majority of people live outside the OECD and …

There has been growing interest in the diffusion of policy innovations across countries.
Research on policy diffusion is characterised by coherent explanatory models that assess …