The International Diffusion of Politics and Policy

Does rational learning explain the diffusion of economic policies? What is policy convergence and what mechanisms cause it? Is it possible to measure and test learning? How does learning compare to other mechanisms of policy convergence such as coercion or bounded learning?

Publications

  • Meseguer, C. and A. Escribà-Folch. 2011. “Learning, Political Regimes and the Liberalization of Trade.” European Journal of Political Research, 50: 775-810.
  • Meseguer, C. 2009. “Learning, Policy Making, and Market Reforms”. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Meseguer, C. and F. Gilardi. 2009. “What is new in the Study of Policy Diffusion?” Review of International Political Economy, 16(3): 527-543.
  • Meseguer, C. 2008. “Learning from Others.” Contribution for the Methodology Newsletter of the International Political Science Association (by invitation), Concepts & Methods, Winter, 4.
  • Przeworski, A. and C. Meseguer. 2006. “Globalization and Democracy.” In Sam Bowles, Pranab Bardhan and Michael Wallerstein (eds). Globalization and the Politics of Redistribution, pp. 169-191. Sage & Princeton University Press.
    Translated into Portuguese, Novos Studos, CEBRAP, 67: 109-130.
  • Meseguer, C. 2006. “Learning and Economic Policy Choices. The European Journal of Political Economy, 22 (June): 156-178.
  • Meseguer, C. 2006. “Rational Learning and Bounded Learning in the Diffusion of Policy Innovations.” Rationality & Society, 18(1): 35-66.
  • Meseguer, C. 2005. “Policy Learning, Policy Diffusion and the Making of a New Order.” The Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science, 598(1): 67-82.
  • Meseguer, C. 2004. “What Role for Learning? The Diffusion of Privatization in the OECD and Latin America.” Journal of Public Policy, 24(3): 299-325.