The Micro Foundations of Policy Diffusion Toward Complex Global Governance: An Analysis of the Transnational Carbon Emission Trading Network

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 420-449

  Paterson, Matthew ^a   Hoffmann, Matthew ^b   Betsill, Michele ^c   Bernstein, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change politics; emissions trading; network analysis; polycentric policy diffusion; transnational networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887443746     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013509575     Document Type: Article

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