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Policy Diffusion

Simmons, Beth, Frank Dobbin and Geoffrey Garrett. "Introduction: The International Diffusion of Liberalism." International Organization 60, no. 4 (October 2006): 781-810.

Simmons, Beth, Zachary Elkins and Andrew Guzman. 2006. "Competing for Capital: the Diffusion of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 1960-2000." International Organization 60, no. 4 (October 2006): 811-846.

Simmons, Beth and Zachery Elkins. 2005. "On Waves, Clusters and Diffusion: A Conceptual Framework." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 598 (March 2005): 33-51.

Simmons, Beth and Zachary Elkins. 2004. "The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy." American Political Science Review 98, no. 1 (February 2004): 171-189.

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Simmons, Beth and Zachary Elkins. 2003. "Globalization and Policy Diffusion: Explaining Three Decades of Liberalization." In Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition, edited by Miles Kahler and David Lake. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

 

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