Symposium on Global Diffusion of Public Policies

International Organization, 60, Fall 2006, pp. 781-810

30 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2014

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Beth A. Simmons

University of Pennsylvania

Frank Dobbin

Harvard University - Department of Sociology

Geoffrey Garrett

Pacific Council on International Policy

Date Written: 2006

Abstract

Political scientists, sociologists, and economists have all sought to analyze the spread of economic and political liberalism across countries in recent decades. This article documents this diffusion of liberal policies and politics and proposes four distinct theories to explain how the prior choices of some countries and international actors affect the subsequent behavior of others: coercion, competition, learning, and emulation. These theories are explored empirically in the symposium articles that follow. The goal of the symposium is to bring quite different and often isolated schools of thought into contact and communication with one another, and to define common metrics by which we can judge the utility of the contending approaches to diffusion across different policy domains

Suggested Citation

Simmons, Beth A. and Dobbin, Frank and Garrett, Geoffrey, Symposium on Global Diffusion of Public Policies (2006). International Organization, 60, Fall 2006, pp. 781-810, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2412630

Beth A. Simmons

University of Pennsylvania ( email )

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Frank Dobbin (Contact Author)

Harvard University - Department of Sociology ( email )

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Geoffrey Garrett

Pacific Council on International Policy ( email )

Los Angeles, CA
United States

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