The democratic foundations of policy diffusion : how health, family, and employment laws spread across countries / Katerina Linos.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199333271 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Law -- Mobility | Law -- Foreign influences | Health care reform | Family policy | Comparative law | Democracy | Public opinionAdditional Physical Form: Print version 9780199967865DDC classification: 344.0321 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models generated domestic support for health family, and employment law reforms across rich democracies.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models generated domestic support for health family, and employment law reforms across rich democracies.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 29, 2013).
Includes index.