This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/knowledge transfer processes
to suggest a dynamic for the transnationalization of policy results. The paper seeks to …

This article re-assesses the literature on policy transfer and diffusion in light of what
constitutes failure or limited success. First, it looks at imperfect, incomplete or uninformed …

Success and failure are key to any consideration of public policy but there have been
remarkably few attempts to assess systematically the various dimensions and complex …

This textbook offers a fresh approach to the study of comparative politics and public policy.
Instead of concentrating on why countries differ, Learning From Comparative Public Policy …

That public health policy and practice should be evidence based is a seemingly
uncontroversial claim. Yet governments and citizens routinely reject the best available …

Cannabis control policies in a few countries have recently shifted from criminal prohibition-
based regimes to legalization of use and supply. While cannabis' newly emerging status of …

The second edition of this popular textbook combines coverage of public policies in different
countries with the conceptual and methodological frameworks for analysing them. This new …

In recent years the spread of diseases such as AIDS, SARS and avian flu has pushed health
issues towards the top of the international agenda. Such outbreaks have serious political …

The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It
identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments …

This article explores the relationship between ideas and interests in policy change by
examining tobacco control in each country of the United Kingdom (UK). In all four, the moves …