Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics

Grace Skogstad is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Expertly researched and assembled, Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics provides insight into the conditions under which different transnational actors can bring about changes in the core ideas that affect public policy development.

Chapter 1: Introduction Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto) and Vivien Schmidt (Boston University)Chapter 2: Ideas and Discourse in Transformational Political Economic Change in Europe Vivien Schmidt (Boston University)Chapter 3: Transnational Policy Paradigm Change and Conflict in the Harmonization of Vehicle Safety and Accounting Standards Tony Porter (McMaster University)Chapter 4: Constructing a Transnational Paradigm in the European Union: The Case of the GMO Risk Regulation Paradigm Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto)Chapter 5: Normative Contexts, Domestic Institutions and the Transformation of Immigration Policy Paradigms in Canada and the United States Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (University of Toronto)Chapter 6: Canadian Refugee Policy and the Role of International Bureaucratic Networks in Domestic Paradigm Change J.A. Sandy Irvine (Wilfrid Laurier University)Chapter 7: Same-sex Unions Legislation and Policy Paradigms: Something Borrowed, Yet Something New Kelly Kollman (University of Glasgow)Chapter 8: Institutional "Stickiness" and Ideational Resistance to Paradigm Change: Canada and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Policy Linda A. White (University of Toronto)Chapter 9: Conclusion Grace Skogstad (University of Toronto)