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The Policy Effects of Internationalization: A Subsystem Adjustment Analysis of Policy Change

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Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

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This article contributes to a better understanding of contemporary policy analysis and management by setting out the parameters for analyzing policy change induced by internationalization. It first maps the dynamics of policy change in domestic settings and then explores how internationalization has affected the dynamics identified. The central proposition of the article is that internationalization promotes the restructuring of policy subsystems in such as way as to form hospitable circumstances for swifter and deeper policy changes than would otherwise be the case. However, the analysis suggests that this is a two-stage process in that once its initial impact is felt, internationalization serves to entrench and stabilize reconstructed policy systems, thus constraining the scope for further change.

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Howlett, M., Ramesh, M. The Policy Effects of Internationalization: A Subsystem Adjustment Analysis of Policy Change. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 4, 31–50 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014971422239

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