Is there convergence in convergence research? an overview of empirical studies on policy convergence

By S. Heichel, J. Pape, Thomas Sommerer. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations

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Convergence towards where: in what ways, if any, are welfare states becoming more similar? (2008, background): “Such a concept is required because ‘policies may approach the model by parallel moves without becoming more similar’ (Heichel et al. 2005: 833).”
Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence towards a Common Model? (2011, methodology): “We measure convergence in HE in CEE countries by looking at their distance to a certain policy model (i.e., delta convergence; Heichel, Pape, and Sommerer 2005).”
The international sources of policy convergence: explaining the spread of environmental policy innovations (2005, background): “…of single mechanisms or classes of mechanisms through which policy convergence may occur and a systematic empirical illustration of how the different mechanisms of convergence actually work is still largely missing (see for state of the art Heichel et al. 2005; Bennett 1991b; Drezner 2001).”
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning? (2007, background): “Peter Gourevitch provided useful comments on an early draft.”
Introduction: Cross-national policy convergence: concepts, approaches and explanatory factors (2005, background): “For years, political scientists have been attracted by this phenomenon and its underlying causal factors (for an overview of the policy convergence literature, see Bennett 1991; Drezner 2001; Heichel et al. 2005).”
Causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence (2005, background): “The definition of policy convergence as the growing similarity of policies over time still leaves a broad range of options as to how to empirically assess and evaluate similarity changes (Heichel et al. 2005).”
Analysing the differential impact of the Bologna Process: Theoretical considerations on national conditions for international policy convergence (2008, background): “However, in order to fully grasp the national impact of the Bologna Process and the convergence effects caused by the underlying mechanisms we consider two different types of policy convergence: sigma and delta convergence (e.g. Heichel et al. 2005).”
Policy diffusion and policy transfer (2009, background): “…suffers from one of the problems that is regularly identified with structuration theory, that it doesn’t allow one to study the interaction between structure and agency because, methodologically, either structure or agency, and usually the former, is held constant (see Hay 2001, McAnulla 2002).”
To what extent does transnational communication drive cross-national policy convergence? The impact of the bologna-process on domestic higher education policies (2011, background): “3 For a detailed discussion of different convergence concepts see Heichel et al. (2005).”