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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"policy convergence"”.
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Supranational organisations and cross-national policy convergence: the case of biosafety in southern Africa
… SADC region towards cross-national similarity or convergence of biosafety systems. This case study research was guided by the three factor conceptualisation of Per Olof Busch and Helge Jorgens (2005), which proposes harmonisation, diffusion and coercive imposition as three distinct international …
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Politics and trade in Africa : Does Sino-African trade and investment significantly influence Africa's United Nations General Assembly voting behaviour?
… few studies have been concerned with the foreign policy consequences of Sino-Africa trade relations. Using a panel of ten Sub-Saharan countries, this paper builds on the theoretical understanding of dependency theory, to explore the relationship between economic dependence and political alignment …
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The Dynamics of Violent Escalation and De-escalation: Explaining Change in Islamist Strategies in Egypt and Indonesia
… logic of grievances. Government repression, low policy convergence and salient threats to the Muslim community lead to escalating grievances. These grievances are aggravated by the pervasiveness of violent norms of resistance and by intra-organizational competition over authority. In such a …
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Agency under Capital Mobility: Domestic Political Institutions and the Policy Autonomy/ Exchange Rate Stability Tradeoff
… must choose between an autonomous monetary policy with currency variability versus stabilizing exchange rates with the sacrifice of policy autonomy. The central research question asks what factors lead the advanced industrial democracies to choose stable exchange rates and what factors lead …
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Globalization and the diffusion of gender policy reforms in Latin America
… introduced similar national gender equality policy reforms. The key policy areas in which this convergence took place were the criminalization of domestic violence, the introduction of state agencies for women, and the incorporation into law of candidate gender quotas for national …
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Unconventional gas exploration and regulating risks: what can Nigeria learn from western countries?
… is studied on the basis of theories of policy convergence, policy learning, lesson-drawing and policy transfer. These theories provide an insight on why and how societies as they get more industrialised, begin to learn and copy the policies of more developed countries and draw lessons …
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Levelling Up and Territorial Cohesion: The Places that Now Matter? French and British Regional Policy and Institutions since 2017
… lagging areas has become a major challenge for policy-makers, increasingly interested in territorialised, or regional, policies. This is particularly true of France and the United Kingdom in the late 2010s, where political changes challenged prevalent understandings of the problem of regional …
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Essays in political economy
… but still are able to propose different tax policy to compete for voters. Citizen voters also have different trade-offs between the two public goods. In equilibrium, both candidates compete for support from a common cut-off voter type, who is indifferent between the two candidates and in …
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The architecture of the stock market accessibility and operational framework: what can an emerging market economy learn from the ‘international standards’ and the ‘best practice’ models of the US and UK?
… market standards and increasing regulatory convergence with ‘pioneer’ and liberalised markets are deeply entrenched in the agenda of the majority of the policymakers in the emerging market economies, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. A question arises as to whether …
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Radio's digital dilemma: broadcasting in the 21st century
The interaction of policy and technological development in the era of “convergence” is messy and fraught with contradictions. The best expression of this condition is found in the story behind the development and proliferation of digital audio broadcasting (DAB). Radio is the last of the …