Introduction: Cross-national policy convergence: concepts, approaches and explanatory factors

By Christoph Knill. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Analysing the differential impact of the Bologna Process: Theoretical considerations on national conditions for international policy convergence (2008, background): “The significance of agency-related factors like domestic preferences and beliefs, especially of national governments, for explaining crossnational policy convergence has been highlighted in convergence studies as well as in research on Europeanization (see Holzinger and Knill 2007; Mastenbroek 2005)”
Globalization, harmonization, and competition: the different pathways to policy convergence (2005, methodology): “To use the terminology provided by Knill (2005) , when great powers cannot achieve a concert, policy convergence will take place through competition rather than harmonization.”
Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence towards a Common Model? (2011, background): “Third, Bologna radiates pressure for national systems to assert their legitimacy in a competitive European environment and under “international scrutiny” (Knill 2005).”
Convergence towards where: in what ways, if any, are welfare states becoming more similar? (2008, background): “…potentially conducive to convergence tendencies, namely independent problem-solving, transnational communication, international harmonization, regulatory competition and imposition (Holzinger and Knill 2005).3 The study of convergence processes is by no means a new theme in welfare state research.”
The politics of policy diffusion (2019, background): “We are not primarily interested in closely related, but clearly distinct (Knill 2005; Benson & Jordan, 2011; Graham et al. 2013), concepts like ‘policy transfer’ (Dolowitz & Marsh 1996, 2000) or ‘policy convergence’ (Bennett 1991).”
Policy learning in Europe: the open method of co-ordination and laboratory federalism (2007, background): “9 For a more general discussion in the political sciences on the mechanisms of policy convergence, see Knill (2005); Holzinger and Knill (2005).”
Environmental Policy Convergence: The Impact of International Harmonization, Transnational Communication, and Regulatory Competition (2008, background): “…are not only the object of state choice, they also have consequences for subsequent governmen- 9+ Knill 2005, 768+ 10+ See Hoberg 2001; Holzinger and Knill 2005; Simmons and Elkins 2004; and Simmons, Dobbin, and Garrett 2006+ 11+ Bennett 1991, 231+ 12+ Hoberg 2001, 127+ 556 International…”
Causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence (2005, background): “This is the central objective of the third part of our analysis, in which we develop theoretical expectations on different indicators of cross-national policy convergence.”
The Privatization of Education: A Political Economy of Global Education Reform (2016, background): “Similarly, policy emulation and diffusion is expected to occur between countries from the same region and linguistic community, and/or between countries that share similar levels of economic and institutional development (Dobbin, Simmons, & Garrett, 2007; Knill, 2005).”
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning? (2007, background): “…that they may seek to discourage moral hazard problems that can lead to system-wide financial instability (Guitian 1995, Mishkin 1999), encourage the repayment of sovereign debt (Babai 1988, Fafchamps 1996, Hopkins et al. 1997), and protect lenders’ investments (Guitian 1995, Khan & Sharma 2001).”
Political Science and Prediction: What's Next for U.S. Climate Change Policy? (2007, background): “…issues related to policy-relevant learning (viewed as cognitive change driven by experience and information) and the diffusion (or spread) of policies and the information and ideas related to them within political systems (Social Learning Group, 2001; Lopes & Durfee, 1999; Haas, 2004; Knill, 2005).”
Is there convergence in convergence research? an overview of empirical studies on policy convergence (2005, background): “5 See Holzinger and Knill (2005) for the concept of the level of convergence.”
Problems (and solutions) in the measurement of policy diffusion mechanisms (2015, background): “time (Bennett 1991; Knill 2005).”
The international sources of policy convergence: explaining the spread of environmental policy innovations (2005, background): “If convergence is to be conceptualized as an evolution over time (Knill 2005; Holzinger and Knill 2005), it is likely that several distinct mechanisms may have played a role at different points in time (Bennett 1991b: 230–1).”