Diffusion without convergence: how political context shapes the adoption of regulatory impact assessment

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Policy diffusion and policy transfer (2009, background): “Radaelli ( 2005 ), for example, notes that although all European Union governments have committed to conducting Regulatory Impact Assessments, what this means in practice varies completely from state to state in line with diverse national priorities.”
Evaluating the effectiveness of impact assessment instruments: Theorising the nature and implications of their political constitution (2010, background): “Trends of diffusion and convergence in international policy have been attributed to a number of different factors: including coercion, mimicisation, harmonisation, and the promotion of policy models by international organisations (e.g. Knill, 2005; Radaelli, 2005).”
THE POLICY AND POLITICS OF POLICY APPRAISAL: EMERGING TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS (2009, background): “The example of some of the later adopters of RIA seems to fall into this category (Radaelli 2005).”
Whither better regulation for the Lisbon agenda? (2007, background): “the dominant stakeholders, and the coherence of design, tool-kit, and quality assurance systems (Radaelli 2005; Radaelli and De Francesco 2007).”