Visibility and facticity in policy diffusion: Going beyond the prevailing binarity

Policy Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-398

  Strebel, Felix ^a   Widmer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Binarity; Facticity; Policy diffusion; Transfer; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FEDERAL SYSTEM; POLICY MAKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84868580813     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-012-9161-y     Document Type: Article

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