The internationalization of policies and politics is catching the attention of a growing number
of scholars in the field of international political economy and comparative public policy (Knill…

The close association of obesity with an increased risk of metabolic diseases, such as insulin
resistance, type 2 diabetes, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, is now well established. In …

Many NLP applications require manual text annotations for a variety of tasks, notably to train
classifiers or evaluate the performance of unsupervised models. Depending on the size and …

Independent regulatory agencies are one of the main institutional features of the 'rising
regulatory state' in Western Europe. Governments are increasingly willing to abandon their …

The idea that policy makers in different states or countries may learn from one another has
fascinated scholars for a long time, but little systematic evidence has been produced so far. …

… Dulcis in fundo: my deepest gratitude goes to my parents, Anna and Piero Gilardi, and to
my … from undoing what the current government has decided (Gilardi, 2002, 2005a). Country-…

Introduction. Frailty screening and assessment are a fundamental issue in Public Health in
order to plan prevention programs and services. Methodology. By a narrative review of the …

… and the second, the sender) and adapted it to the study of diffusion among US states; in
turn, this approach was later employed to investigate diffusion at the cross-national level (Gilardi, …

This article builds on the recent policy diffusion literature and attempts to overcome one of its
major problems, namely the lack of a coherent theoretical framework. The literature defines …

This article studies the diffusion of the main institutional feature of regulatory capitalism, namely,
independent regulatory agencies. While only a few such authorities existed in Europe in …