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100	1		_aSIMMONS, Beth A; ELKINS, Zachary _921358
245	1	0	_aRhe Globalization of liberalization : _bpolicy diffusion in the international political economy
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _cFebruary 2004
520	3		_aOne of the most important developments over the past three decades has been the spread of liberal economic ideas and policies throughout the world. These policies have affected the lives of millions of people, yet our most sophisticated politcal economy models do not adequately capture influences on these policy choices. Evidence suggests that the adoption of liberal economic practices is highly clustered both temporally and spatially. We hypothesize that this clustering might be due to processes of policy diffusion. We think of diffusion as resulting from one of two broad sets of forces: one in wich mounting adoptions of a policy alter the benefits of adopting for others and another in wich within these bond classes of mechanisms, construct appropriate measures of the relevant concepts, and test their effects on liberalization and restriction of the current account, the capital account, and the exchange rate regime. Our findings suggest that domestic models of foreign economic policy making are insufficient. The evidence shows that policy transitions are influenced by international economic competition as well as the policies of a country´s sociocultural peers. We interpret the latter influence as a form of channeled learning reflecting governments´ search for appropriate models for economic policy.
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g98, 1, p. 171-190 _dNew York : Cambridge University Press, February 2004 _xISSN 0003-0554 _w
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