#  The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion 

 



*How Health, Family, and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries*

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Kateri**na Linos** (Ph.D. '07)  
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law.Oxford University Press, 2013.  
[Go to publisher's page  ](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-democratic-foundations-of-policy-diffusion-9780199967865?cc=us&lang=en)[Read chapter 1](http://books.google.com/books?id=RFOEx5G6kNwC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false)

- Winner of the 2014 APSA Giovanni Sartori Prize for best book on qualitative methods.
- Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Chadwick Alger Prize for best book on international organization and multilateralism.
- Winner of the 2014 Peter Katzenstein Prize for outstanding first book in international relations or comparative politics.
- Selected among the Best Books of 2013 on Western Europe by *Foreign Affairs*.

 **View author's Book Talk: Harvard Law School Library**  
With panelists Noah Feldman, Amartya Sen, and Beth Simmons.

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