Is there convergence of national environmental policies? An analysis of policy outputs in 24 OECD countries

Environmental Politics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-41

  Holzinger, Katharina ^a   Knill, Christoph ^a   Sommerer, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competition; Convergence; Diffusion; Environmental policy; Globalization; Harmonisation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBALIZATION; OECD; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78751610251     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2011.538163     Document Type: Article

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