dc.contributor.author
Heinze, Torben
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T07:37:06Z
dc.date.available
2012-01-19
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18355
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-22059
dc.description
1\. Introduction 5 2\. Differences and Intersections in Mechanism-Based
Thinking on Policy Diffusion 7 2.1 Constructivist and Rationalist Thinking 9
2.2 Explanations Based on Changes in Structures and/or Agency 10 2.3 Four
Concepts of Diffusion Mechanisms 11 3\. Pathways of Policy Diffusion 14 3.1
Conceptualizing Learning 14 3.2 Conceptualizing Externalities 17 3.3
Conceptualizing Socialization 19 3.4 Conceptualizing Emulation 21 4\.
Concluding Remarks 23 Literature 27
dc.description.abstract
Despite theoretical and methodological progress in what is now coined as the
third generation of diffusion studies, explicitly dealing with the causal
mechanisms underlying diffusion processes and comparatively analyzing them is
only of recent date. As a matter of fact, diffusion research has ended up in a
diverse and often unconnected array of theoretical assumptions relying both on
rational as well as constructivist reasoning – a circumstance calling for more
theoretical coherence and consistency. Against this backdrop, this paper
reviews and streamlines diffusion literature in political science. Diffusion
mechanisms largely cluster around two causal arguments determining the desires
and preferences of actors for choosing alternative policies. First, existing
diffusion mechanisms accounts can be grouped according to the rationality for
policy adoption, this means that government behavior is based on the
instrumental considerations of actors or on constructivist arguments like
norms and rule-driven actors. Second, diffusion mechanisms can either directly
impact on the beliefs of actors or they might influence the structural
conditions for decision-making. Following this logic, four basic diffusion
mechanisms can be identified in mechanism-based thinking on policy diffusion:
emulation, socialization, learning, and externalities.
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000055-9
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http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
Mechanism-based thinking on policy diffusion
dc.title.subtitle
a review of current approaches in political science
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/v/transformeurope/publications/working_paper/WP_34_Heinze.pdf
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
de
refubium.affiliation.other
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
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FUDOCS_document_000000012766
refubium.series.issueNumber
34
refubium.series.name
KFG working paper
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000001808
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open access