Chapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: A Theory of Diffusion Through Democratic Mechanisms ; Chapter 3: How Americans View Foreign Models ; Chapter 4: National Health Services Across OECD Countries ; Chapter 5: Health Reforms in the UK, Spain and Greece ; Chapter 6: Family Policy Diffusion Across OECD Countries ; Chapter 7: Family Policy Developments in Greece and Spain ; Chapter 8: Conclusions and Implications ; Acronym Table
Katerina Linos is Assistant Professor at Berkeley Law School. Her research interests include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law and health care law.
Katerina Linos's account of policy diffusion is the first to take
voters seriously. She perceptively compares diffusion through
technocracy with diffusion through democracy, and in the process
demonstrates the power of citizens to use media and other
information to join the domestic debate over social policy. Finally
a sophisticated and convincing account of policy convergence as
though local politics matters!
*Beth Simmons, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs,
Harvard University*
Katerina Linos is both political scientist and legal scholar par
excellence. She combines state-of-the-art empirical methods with a
subtle understanding of international and comparative law. The
result is a book that delivers a powerful message built upon
rigorous and innovative empirical research. These pages are chocked
full of important insights about the relationship between
democratic politics and the global legal order. The Democratic
Foundations of Policy Diffusion could not come at a better
time-when so many countries are reconfiguring their relationships
to international organizations and grappling with the maintenance
of effective and humane social policies for their own people.
*Ryan Goodman, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law, New York
University*
When do one nation's reforms-of health care, anti-discrimination,
and other domestic programs-influence policies in another? In this
path breaking work, Katerina Linos uses opinion polls, case
studies, and rigorous statistical analysis to show policies moving
across 18 Western democracies, even when domestic leaders claim
indifference or opposition to foreign models. Anyone interested in
domestic or international politics would benefit from this powerful
research to examine how ideologies, economic conditions, and local
politics affect domestic choices.
*Martha Minow, Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor, Harvard Law
School*
Linos brings impressive mixed-method analysis to bear on the
phenomenon of cross-national policy diffusion... This work has
important consequences for the understanding of the influence of
international organizations -- policies need not be binding to be
persuasive... Essential.
*CHOICE*
For scholars, the book poses as many questions as it answers. For
policymakers, it suggests novel ways to build support for policy
innovations.
*Foreign Affairs*
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