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The Democratic Foundations of policy diffusion : how health, family and employment laws spread across countries / Katerina Linos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linos, Katerina, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Mobility.
- Law.
- Law--Foreign influences.
- Health care reform.
- Family policy.
- Comparative law.
- Democracy.
- Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Other Title:
- Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2013
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international models generated domestic support for health family, and employment law reforms across rich democracies.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Diffusion Through Democratic Mechanisms 3. How Americans View Foreign Models 4. National Health Services Across OECD Countries 5. Health Reforms in the United Kingdom, Spain and Greece 6. Family Policy Diffusion Across OECD Countries 7. Family Policy Developments in Greece and Spain 8. Conclusions and Implications Acronym Table
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 29, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-933327-0
- OCLC:
- 848895537
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