The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

The world of public policy is becoming increasingly small due to dramatic changes in global
communications, political and economic institutional structures, and to nation states …

The implementation and the diffusion of environmental policy is a hotspot in European
ecosystem management. Policy diffusion meets the need of the harmonization principle in …

This paper focuses on the circulation of policy ideas within international administrations.
Based upon a study of UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, it shows how …

'Stella Ladi has taken on a daunting set of challenges: a comparative study of policy transfer;
a study of the role of think tanks in the transfer process; and the relevance of …

Understanding causal influence is difficult in the best of circumstances for any activity: it is an
especially complex task to assess the impact and role of research on public policymaking …

Three features of Gilardi and Meseguer's recent announcement of the start of a “third
generation” of diffusion research in Europe require evaluation. First, conceptualization of …

Policy transfer occurs regularly. In essence, a strategy developed elsewhere is taken up and
applied in another policy context. Yet what precisely is policy transfer and, more importantly …

This contribution adopts a state-and regulation-theoretical approach to the welfare state in
Europe and the more general issue of whether the EU operates more as a marionette or …

Latransferencia de modelos y prácticas organizacionales es un fenómeno cada vez más
frecuente en un contexto organizacional dinámico cuya búsqueda se centra en la eficiencia …