Transnational communication and domestic environmental policy learning

• Main Authors: Sietske VEENMAN, Duncan LIEFFERINK
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Etudes Scientifiques Spécialisées Appliquées aux Communications Humaines, Economiques, Sociales et Symboliques 2014-07-01
• Series: Essachess
• Subjects: transnational communication; policy learning; airport noise; contminated land
• Online Access: http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/article/view/240/275

This article seeks to provide patterns of how transnational communication may lead to domestic policy learning. Existing theories of policy learning, policy diffusion and policy convergence assume that transnational communication may lead to domestic policy learning and policy change, but do not suggest general, empirically investigated patterns. Two case studies on the policy of noise abatement around airports and the policy of contaminated land show that different venues in which transnational communication takes place may induce different types of policy change at the national level.