This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy
literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain …

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over
the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally …

Die öffentliche Politik wird in der Schweizer Politikwissenschaft sehr aktiv beforscht. Ihre
Erforschung dient der Lösung gesellschaftlicher Probleme. So untersucht die Policy-Analyse …

Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation.
Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more …

Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles
about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and …

The idea that policy makers in different states or countries may learn from one another has
fascinated scholars for a long time, but little systematic evidence has been produced so far …

Despite theoretical and methodological progress in what is now coined as the third
generation of diffusion studies, explicitly dealing with the causal mechanisms underlying …

The international environmental community and many donor countries have encouraged
develo** countries to adopt renewable energy (RE) policies that will encourage low …

The requirement of bottom-up action from all the countries to deal with climate change
makes it necessary to analyze the factors influencing policy adoption. This article contributes …

Policy learning has been one of the primary mechanisms by which policy innovations are
assumed to diffuse from one jurisdiction to another. Recent research suggests, however, that …