Has globalisation led to a convergence in policy-making across nations and, if so, what are
the causal mechanisms? This book analyses the extent to which the environmental policies …

A central issue of globalisation research is the question whether globalisation leads to the
convergence of policies or whether domestic responses to global challenges remain …

Over recent decades national environmental policies have become increasingly alike. This
book analyses the driving forces of this process of policy convergence, providing an in-depth …

There is reason to believe that environmental policy convergence resulting from policy
diffusion is influenced not only by functional imperatives of the world market, but also by a …

The continuing development of the European Union (EU) is transforming policy and politics
in its member countries, and possibly in an even larger number of potential members. This …

This article examines how far the EU has succeeded in encouraging the content, structure
and style of national environmental policies to converge. Using fresh empirical evidence …

Responsibility for environmental policy making in Europe has shifted to the EU level to a
remarkable extent. Considering that many of the EU measures aim at levelling the playing …

In recent years, there is growing interest in the study of cross-national policy convergence.
Yet we still have a limited understanding of the phenomenon: Do we observe convergence …

Scholars have proposed the analytical concept of the environmental state, a state where
government actively addresses negative environmental externalities of economic activities …

The European Union's (EU) role in determining the overall goals and targets of
environmental policy in Western Europe is well known and widely understood (Jordan 2005; …