Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion

By Kurt Weyland. 2007

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Preface vii Abbreviations xi Chapter 1: The Puzzle of Policy Diffusion 1 Chapter 2: Toward a New Theory of Policy Diffusion 30 Chapter 3: External Pressures and International Norms in Pension Reform 69 Chapter 4: Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Pension Reform 97 Chapter 5: External Pressures and International Norms in Health Reform 142 Chapter 6: Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Health Reform 181 Chapter 7: Bounded Rationality in the Era of Globalization 215 References and Interviews 239 Index 283

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986–2002 (2009, neutral): “doi:10.1017/S0003055409990116”
Structural power in comparative political economy: perspectives from policy formulation in Latin America (2015, background): “30 Hacker and Pierson likewise observe: “If influence depends on fear of disinvestment, then it will vary depending on how credible policy makers believe that threat to be” (emphasis added).31 Despite the 29 See Weyland (2007) on cognitive bias in policy formulation.”
Empirical Modeling of Policy Diffusion in Federal States: The Dyadic Approach (2008, methodology): “In addition, a growing literature has examined how policies diffuse internationally in a wide range of domains, including economic policies (Elkins, Guzman, and Simmons 2006; Simmons and Elkins 2004; Meseguer 2006a; Meseguer 2004; Swank 2006), regulatory policies (Jordana and Levi-Faur 2005; Levi-Fa”
The Diffusion of Regime Contention in European Democratization, 1830-1940 (2010, background): “For these reasons, diffusion cannot be fully grasped if it is defined as the process by which a stimulus emanating from one unit enhances the probability of its replication in other units (contra Weyland, 2007, p. 17).”
The mechanisms of policy diffusion (2008, background): “Previous scholarship has often referred to multiple mechanisms of diffusion, but with few exceptions (e.g., Berry and Baybeck 2005; Boehmke and Witmer 2004; Weyland 2005, 2007) these studies have not tested one explanation against another.”
The diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the Americas (2011, background): “Other sources of foreign pressure, such as learning through technocratic exchanges and shared norms (Finnemore, 1993; Weyland, 2007) and coercion through international financial institutions (Dobbin et al., 2007; Henisz et al., 2005) are thought to spur policy diffusion in other policy domains.”