Domestic politics and the diffusion of international policy innovations: How does accommodation happen?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 424-433

  Biesenbender, Sophie ^a   Tosun, Jale ^b  

^a Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clean air policy; Domestic accommodation; Nitrogen oxide emissions; Policy change; Policy diffusion; Policy innovations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923305746     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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