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Introduction: Bringing Regime Types into Diffusion Studies
Author(s) -
Croissant Aurel,
Tosun Jale
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12383
Subject(s) - section (typography) , autocracy , special section , diffusion , computer science , political science , management science , operations research , engineering ethics , economics , democracy , engineering , engineering physics , law , physics , politics , thermodynamics , operating system
This article introduces the main themes of the special section ‘The Global Diffusion of Policies, Practices and Values: Democracies and Autocracies Compared’. It discusses various strenghts and shortcomings of the existing research, outlines the unifying research questions that tie the various contributions to this special section together and briefly introduces each of the five contributions to this special section.