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 …

What explains the adoption of similar policy innovations, ie laws, policies, instruments and
institutions, across different nations? An abundant and still growing body of literature mainly …

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 …

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 …

The theory of regulatory competition suggests a race to the bottom of environmental
standards. This theory, however, has not found much empirical support. Several attempts to …

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 …

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 …