Internationalisation and Policy Transfer

Conference hosted jointly by GEP and Murphy Institute of Political Economy

Held at Tulane University, New Orleans on 11th and 12th April, 2003.

Convenors: Alan Duncan (University of Nottingham and GEP) and Doug Nelson (Tulane University and GEP)

With increasing globalisation of economic activity, there are more opportunities to 'learn' from experiences of policy interventions elsewhere. Although the public and social policy decision making process continues to be fashioned largely by national priorities, it is nonetheless also the case that more than ever before national policy decisions are being informed by international experiences and policy structures. The arena of policy transfer is broad, yet the mechanisms, consequences and limitations of co-ordination, convergence or transfer of policy have only recently begun to be explored. Alan Duncan and Doug Nelson are organising an international workshop to discuss these important and topical issues.

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Panel I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Policy Learning, Transfer and Convergence

• Evelyne Huber & John Stephens (University of North Carolina)
  State Economic and Social Policy in Global Capitalism
• David Dolowitz (University of Birmingham)
  The Europeanization of Policy Transfer: The EU as Policy Mediator
• Diane Stone (University of Warwick)
  Transnational Transfer Agents and Global Networks in the ‘Internationalisation’ of Policy

Panel II. Characterizing Policy Transfer, Learning and Convergence

• Kevin Grier (University of Oklahoma)
  Convergence: Concepts, Tests & Evidence
• Oliver Morrissey (University of Nottingham) & Doug Nelson (Tulane University)
  Characterizing International Policy Learning
• Graham Wilson (University of Wisconsin)
  Importing Cooperation in Environmental Policy

 

Panel III. Macroeconomic Policy

• Richard Hemming (International Monetary Fund)
  Policies to Promote Fiscal Discipline
• Robert Franzese and Jude C. Hays (University of Michigan)
  Modeling Spatial Relationships in International and Comparative Political Economy: An Application to Globalization and Capital Taxation in Developed Democracies

 

Panel IV. International Trade/Competition Policy

• Thomas Prusa (Rutgers University) & Susan Skeath (Wellesley College)
  Retaliation as an Explanation for the Proliferation of Antidumping
• Chris Milner (University of Nottingham)
  Learning, Herding, or Coercion: The Case of the ‘Trade Policy Revolution’ in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Julian Clarke, Simon Evennett (World Trade Institute) & J. David Richardson (Syracuse University)
  Recent Cross-Border Competition-Policy Transfer and Convergence

 

Panel V. The Welfare State

• David Greenaway (University of Nottingham) & Bruce Chapman (Australian National University)
  Learning to Live with Loans? Policy Transfer and the Funding of Higher Education.