Book Review: The democratic foundations of policy diffusion: how health, family and employment laws spread across countries

Brown, Louise (2013) Book Review: The democratic foundations of policy diffusion: how health, family and employment laws spread across countries. LSE Review of Books (18 Dec 2013). Website.

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"The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries." Katerina Linos. OUP USA. April 2013. --- This book claims that laws spread across countries in very public and politicized ways. Katerina Linos argues that politicians choose to follow certain international models to win domestic elections, and to persuade sceptical voters that their ideas are not radical, ill-thought-out experiments, but mainstream, tried-and-true solutions. Whilst it is not new to discover that countries borrow and emulate policies, the original contribution of the book is in being able to empirically link this to elected politicians and voter behaviour, writes Louise Brown.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2014 13:54
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 18:55
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55316

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