National Bureaucracies and Transnational Policy Diffusion

Abstract

The literature on policy diffusion has paid scant attention to the role of national bureaucracies in facilitating or impeding the adoption of policy innovation originating from another jurisdiction. To advance our knowledge of how bureaucracies and bureaucratic politics matters for transnational policy diffusion, this Panel invites Papers that offer insights on the conceptual understanding of bureaucracies’ role in policy diffusion; the conditions of bureaucratic influence; empirical illustrations on how national bureaucracies matter; and new venues for advancing the theorizing on diffusion processes including national bureaucracies.