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 …

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

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

Given the growing threat of global environmental change there is a need for a globalisation
of environmental policy. 87 However, even when the issue is acknowledged as important …

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 …

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 …

IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD, NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES BECOME
INCREASINGLY INTERDE-pendent. This means that the policy choices of one country are …

Since the early days of environmental policy in the 1970s, international policy development
has been driven by pioneer countries that set regulatory trends. The ongoing diffusion of …

Policy diffusion is a well-established area of research in the realm of comparative politics (eg
Walker 1969; Gray 1973; Berry and Berry 1990; for an overview Kern 2000). It has recently …