What about non-diffusion? The effect of competitiveness in policy-comparative diffusion research

Policy Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 345-358

  van der Heiden, Nico ^b   Strebel, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competition; Energy policy; Locational policy; Policy diffusion

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPETITIVENESS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY POLICY;

EID: 84868559211     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-012-9149-7     Document Type: Article

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