The article gives an empirical overview of the international spread of 22 environmental
policy innovations. The policy innovations examined in the article include administrative …

The subject of this paper is the importance of the diffusion of environmental innovations
between countries for the global development of environmental policy. Empirical …

The subject of this paper is the importance of the diffusion of environmental innovations
between countries for the global development of environmental policy. Empirical …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Comparative policy analysis increasingly faces the challenge of incorporating external
forces on national policy developments into its analytical framework. Scholars of …

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 …

New Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) are becoming increasingly attractive. From a
global perspective, there has been a rapid diffusion of these market‐based, voluntary or …

During the 1990s, a new regulatory pattern in domestic environmental policy making
emerged. This pattern is largely a result of policy diffusion. In the absence of formal …