The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning?

By F. Dobbin, Beth A. Simmons, G. Garrett. 2007

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Subfields: Development, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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2. F. Mukhtarov
3. A. Swaminathan
4. Antoni Verger
5. Laszlo Tihanyi
6. Benjamin Sovacool
7. S. Soule
8. Fabrizio Gilardi

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2. Fabrizio Gilardi
3. Martino Maggetti
4. S. Lavenex
5. F. Mukhtarov
6. Adrián Zancajo
7. Heike Solga
8. V. Vinichenko

In Strategy and Management

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2. Laszlo Tihanyi
3. Berthold Rittberger
4. Fabrizio Gilardi
5. A. Wonka
6. Laurence Capron
7. S. Soule
8. A. Swaminathan

Citations in the corpus

• State Capacity, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Stock Market Development (2016, background): “…effect of multilateral agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the possibility of imitation among countries (Henisz, Zelner, and Guillén, 2005; Polillo and Guillén, 2005; Dobbin, Simmons, and Garrett, 2007; Kogut and Macpherson, 2008; Weber, Davis, and Lounsbury, 2009).”
• The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Agencies (2011, neutral): “See Dobbin, Simmons, and Garrett (2007) for a review of diffusion mechanisms.”
• Adopting a new religion: The case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany (2012, neutral): “…topics in the context of technology adoption (see, for example, Foster and Rosenzweig, 1995, or Conley and Udry, 2010) or, closer to the topic of this paper, of the spread of policies or of democratic institutions (Besley and Case, 1995; Markoff, 1996; Mukand and Rodrik, 2005; Dobbin et al., 2007).”
• When Does Prior Experience Pay? Institutional Experience and the Multinational Corporation (2014, background): “Several studies on institutions and world society have underscored the necessity of understanding institutional variations and the interrelatedness among nations (Hirsch and Lounsbury, 1996; Guillén and Saurez, 2005; Henisz, Zelner, and Guillén, 2005; Dobbin, Simmons, and Garrett, 2007).”
• The power of functionalist extension: how EU rules travel (2014, background): “Competition is defined as adaptive behaviour triggered by the negative externalities of other actors’ internal policies (Dobbin et al. 2007: 257f).”