The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy: The international diffusion of public sector downsizing: network emulation and theory-driven learning

By Chang kil Lee, D. Strang. 2008

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The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning? (2007, unknown): “…who have devised strategies for testing the concrete mechanisms that the four different diffusion schools point to have not only produced more rigorous and compelling analyses, but they have also developed new insights that feed back into theory development (Elkins et al. 2006, Lee & Strang 2006).”
The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change: Understanding Policy Change as a Methodological Problem (2009, background): “This was what appeared to happen, for example, in welfare reform driven by international organizations or influenced by “lesson drawing” (Rose 1991 , Ramesh and Howlett 2006 , Lee and Strang 2006 ) in which efforts to re-order welfare programmes to make them more efficient and market oriented res”
Learning From Others (2009, background): “…(Simmons and Elkins 2004), marketoriented reforms (Meseguer 2004; Meseguer 2006a; Henisz, Zelner, and Guillén 2005), public-sector downsizing (Lee and Strang 2006), tax policy (Swank 2006), pension reform (Brooks 2005; Brooks 2007), independent regulatory agencies (Jordana and Levi-Faur…”
Policy diffusion and policy transfer (2009, methodology): “After briefly reviewing the diffusion literature, Lee and Strang (2006) introduce an interesting distinction between process-tracing and pattern-finding strategies.”