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 …

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 …

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

What happens to policy innovations after they have been adopted? What factors account for
subsequent changes to these policies? These are the research questions guiding this study …

States have been widely criticized for failing to advance the international climate regime.
Many observers now believe that a “new” climate governance is emerging through …

The governance of climate change is in flux. In the understandable rush to explore what is
filling the governance gaps created by gridlock in the international regime, scholars risk …

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 …

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 …

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 …