Who Learns from What in Policy Diffusion Processes?

Gilardi, Fabrizio

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00452.x

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“…We suggest that parties also use heuristics to guide their search for relevant information from foreign incumbent parties. Dobbin, Simmons, and Garrett 2007;Franzese and Hays 2008;Gilardi 2010Gilardi , 2012. 6 However, it is equally plausible that it could take place between parties.…”

Section: What Are the Domestic And Foreign Influences On Parties' Polmentioning

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Party Policy Diffusion

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Do parties learn from or emulate parties in other political systems? This research develops the argument that parties are more likely to employ the heuristic of learning from and emulatingforeign successful (incumbent) parties. Spatial-econometric analyses of parties’ election policies from several established democracies robustly confirm that political parties respond to left-right policy positions of foreign political parties that have recently governed. By showing that parties respond to theseforeign incumbent parties, this work has significant implications for our understanding of party competition. Furthermore, we contribute to the literature on public policy diffusion, as we suggest that political parties are important vehiclesthroughwhich public policies diffuse.

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Section: What Are the Domestic And Foreign Influences On Parties' Polmentioning

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“…If policies diffuse between parties across national borders, our understanding of party competition will benefit from insights from the literature on policy diffusion (see Gilardi 2010Gilardi , 2012.…”

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“…In this broad picture, processes like policy diffusion and policy transfer should also be considered contextual factors rather than direct drivers. Policy transfer (Dolowitz and Marsh 2000;Bulmer and Padgett 2005) and policy diffusion (Gilardi 2010;Shipan and Volden 2012) can activate mechanisms like lesson-drawing, learning, emulation, inspiration, competition, all of which can clearly influence decision makers' choices, albeit within a specific context since they also interact with others possible contextual factors.…”

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How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

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Policy instruments are a fundamental component of public policies. Policy instruments are often a result of mediation within the policy design process, whenever decision makers reshape existing instruments without introducing any real innovation. This results in imitation, layering and ambiguity in tool choice selection, and raises the theoretical problem of the logic according to which decision makers choose certain specific policy instruments rather than others. Decision makers may have different reasons for choosing certain specific instruments, although these reasons should be connected to the two main purposes of decision-making, that is, the search for effectiveness and the construction of a shared sense, a common acceptance. Thus, the choice of instruments is a question of potentially conflicting drivers that decision makers have to cope with within a specific decisional situation, when asked to solve those problems that have arisen. This paper examines this question and offers an analytical framework based on the two main factors in terms of which the selection of instruments is channelled and assessed: legitimacy and instrumentality. The boundaries created by how decision makers perceive these two dimensions mean that only four selection patterns can be chosen by decision makers: hybridization, stratification, contamination or routinization.

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“…The literature on diffusion commonly identifies coercion, socialization, learning and competition (or emulation) as key transmission mechanisms (Graham et al 2013). 3 Gilardi (2010) observes, however, that in practice it has proven difficult to distinguish between possible causal mechanisms. In our view, a focus on specific policy areas allows for the identification of instances of converging perceptions and beyond that to actual collaboration.…”

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EU–China Security Cooperation in Context

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Dorussen

2016

Security Relations Between China and the European Union

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The paper has two main aims. First it seeks to explore whether security cooperation between the EU and China is taking place, and if so, whether it is evenly spread across a number of security dimensions. Second it intends to investigate the underlying motives or drivers that either facilitate or inhibit EU-China security cooperation. Further, it will explain why the EU rather than EU member states is chosen as the unit of analysis, explore the development of EU-China security relations, and illustrate how historical legacies, identity aspects and differences over key issues, such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, affect EU-China security relations. In addition, it will deal with the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the study on EU-China security relations, paying particular emphasis to the concepts of diffusion and convergence. Whether or not EU-China security cooperation converges in one of the ten chosen security dimensions will be assessed by the degree of policy conformity the EU and China are able (or unable) to obtain with regard to threat perceptions and policy response thereto. Attention will be devoted to diffusion factors which can affect changes in the perception of threats and response thereof. Among these factors are changes in (geo-political) structure, interests and norms. A further objective of the paper will be to explore whether policy convergence on threat perceptions and response thereto might be a precondition for joint action, or whether practical cooperation can take place without prior policy convergence between the EU and China. The paper will round off with a short section introducing the security dimensions that are being examined in the more detailed study on which this paper is based.

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Who Learns from What in Policy Diffusion Processes?

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