National Policy-Making investigates the way in which social change takes place at a global scale. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world in a distinctive approach that bridges the local and global.

1. Introduction Part I: Cross-national Comparisons 2. Interdependent Decision-Making in Practice: Justification of New Legislation in Six Countries 3. Unholy Alliances: Competitiveness as a Domestic Power Strategy 4. The Sociogenesis of the Nation-State in European Social Policy 5. Global Trends in European Regional Development: The EU Cohesion Policy and the Case of Region-Building in Poland 6. The Role of PISA Publicity in Forming National Education Policy: The Case of the Finnish Curriculum Reform Part II: Domestic Field Battles and Naturalization 7. Local Politics of Global Models' Domestication: The Struggle over Central Bank Independence in Israel 8. Global "Diffusion", Banal Nationalism, and the Politics of Policy Legitimation: A Genealogical Study of "Zest for Living" in Japanese Education Policy Discourse 9. Culture and History in the Domestication of Global Trends of Higher Education in Pakistan 10. Converging the National with Stakeholder Interests: Establishing a national Bioethics Committee in Finland 11. Cleansing our Hands of the "Dirty War": The Colombian Domestication of Human Rights