Cross-national policy convergence : causes, concepts and empirical findings
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Cross-national policy convergence : causes, concepts and empirical findings
(Journal of European public policy series)
Routledge, 2006
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Ser. edited by: Jeremy Richardson
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.
To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.
With growing economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states, it is often assumed that there is an overall trend towards increasingly similar policies across countries. Comparative research on the domestic impact of globalization and European integration, however, reveals that policy convergence can hardly be considered as a dominant and uniform tendency which can be taken for granted. Although a number of factors have been suggested in order to account for the rather mixed empirical picture, we still have limited knowledge about the causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence. In particular, the central mechanisms and conditions affecting both degree and level of cross-national policy convergence are yet not well understood.
This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of the European Union, European politics, and international relations. This is a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Causes and Conditions of Cross-national Policy Convergence
3. Is There Convergence in Convergence Research? An Overview of Empirical Studies in the Field of Policy Convergence 4. International Sources of Policy Convergence 5. Globalization, Harmonization, and Competition: The different pathways to policy convergence 6. Central Banks on the Move: Explaining Cross-national Convergence and Diffusion 7. How Context Matters: Regulatory Impact assessment in the European Union
8. Climate policy convergence in Europe: An assessment based on National Communications to the UNFCCC 9. When the Birds Sing: A Framework for Analyzing Domestic Factors BehindPolicy Convergence 10. Policy Convergence: Critical Assessment and Conclusions
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