Beschreibung:
The Synchronization of National Policies makes a contribution to current understanding on how national policies are synchronized with each other. Unlike mainstream research that treats international organizations as the creators of such global governance, this book underlines the role of local actors. The book shows how actors in nation states justify policy decisions by international comparisons and by the policies of other countries.
1. Introduction 2. Synchronization Through Epistemic Governance 3. The Formation, Spread and Use of World Models 4. The Construction of Parallel Domestic Realities 5. Cross-National Discourses and American Unilateralism 6. The Epistemic Capital of Organizations 7. The Transnational Circulation of Catchwords 8. The Global Incorporation of Uniqueness 9. Conclusion