Governance by diffusion: Implementing global norms through cross-national imitation and learning

Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 246-283

  Jörgens, Helge ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781845421700.00017     Document Type: Chapter

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