Policy convergence and divergence
Policy Convergence and Divergence in Scotland under Devolution
... Intergovernmental policy making is further complicated by the European Union, many of whose responsibilities correspond to devolved matters in ...EU policy, and ‘downstream’ in its ...
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Policy convergence, divergence and communities: The case of spatial planning in post-devolution Britain and Ireland
... of policy transfer before devolution, in effect the path dependency for the implementation of any initiative meant that they were tailored to other aspects of the governance system and its ...
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Convergence and divergence in welfare state development: an assessment of education policy in OECD countries
... cause policy convergence over time, ...social policy and that their development is likely to show a high degree of path depend- ency, countries can maintain differences even when political rhetoric ...
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Governing the Formal Economy : The Convergence of Theory and Divergence of Practice
... and policy experimentation, does the discipline have to say about the relationship between the state and the ...of policy convergence that might have otherwise been ...
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Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain
... the policy statements from all three countries suggest that unequal access to, use and quality of health services are likely to be compounding health inequalities (for example, references to Julian Tudor Hart’s ...
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Public policy in Scotland after devolution: convergence or divergence.
... education policy may not continue to be ...education policy-making in Scotland, and the higher education policy community is keen not to distance itself from the rest of the ...education ...
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School library development vs policy provision: divergence or convergence?
... and policy framework for school libraries casts ambivalence over school library development in its ...a policy, there are no standards set for school libraries which in turn means that the baseline is fluid ...
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Ten years of EMU: Convergence, Divergence and New Policy Priorities
... the divergence between external accounts may be at least partly attributed to the different patterns of inward and outward FDI across the countries of the ...
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Convergence and divergence in the wildlife sector
... the policy and legal environment through which different actors managed to converge their interests and actions that have significantly shaped access and control of land and its resources by the local ...
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Enlargement and Eurozone: Convergence or Divergence
... monetary policy and if Poland and Hungary wish to achieve inflation rates similar to the German inflation rate, they must adjust their monetary policies in the direction of the German monetary ...
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International convergence and local divergence
... Concerning a growth evaluation, such an agglomeration of labor force in the core turns out to be bene…cial for the growth rate of the global economy. In our framework (based in Grossman and Helpman (91)) imitation and ...
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Convergence or Divergence in International Higher Education Policy Lessons from Europe
... of policy implementation need to focus more on institutional, departmental, and individual ...time. Policy makers, university managers, and researchers would benefit from paying more attention to those ...
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Divergence and convergence in the federal judicial system
... the policy balance struck by the legislature, and most have been reluctant to identify with precision the factors to be considered when applying the tests for ...
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Convergence or divergence of the Bulgaria economy to the EU
... Real convergence in the EU countries continues to be a determining factor for the economic strategy and policy of the new EU Members States, including Bulgaria, in the medium ...the convergence of ...
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11. Convergence, divergence and the Kuznets curve
... that convergence in GDP per capita among the present members of the EU seems to have slowed down after 1973 and may even have ...EU policy in the 1987 Single European ...involve divergence, followed ...
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European Approaches to MPA Education: Convergence and Divergence
... (2) The aim and objectives of the TNPA The main goal of the TNPA is the development of a greater European dimension in Public Administration and Public Management programs. The network provides a platform for the ...
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Contending cultures of counterterrorism: transatlantic divergence or convergence?
... Conclusion Strategic culture remains the biggest challenge to transatlantic convergence on counter- terrorism. Security doctrines are matters of fashion, but strategic culture is much more firmly embedded. In the ...
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The divergence and convergence of ICSID and non-ICSID arbitration
... 124 2.1.2 Failure to State Reasons The other ground for annulment provided under the ICSID Convention that applicants frequently contend is the argument that the award has failed to state the reasons on which it is ...
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Convergence of divergence of OECD health care systems
... In the German health insurance, contribution rates are traditionally fixed by each in- surance fund (Alber 1992). While this model of self-regulation did not change in the first phase of cost containment policy in ...
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Convergence or divergence? Debate on China's regional development
... national policy framework, most foreign investors would still have tended to choose the coast as their business locations because of better infrastructure, better industrial bases and higher technological ...
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