ABSTRACT
I focus in this chapter on two concepts-globalization and policy learningand how international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) as non-state actors influence and relate to both of these concepts. Nye and colleagues define globalization as ‘‘the thickening of the networks of interdependence spanning international boundaries that accompanies increasing rapid and inexpensive movement of information, ideas, money, goods, and people across boundaries’’ (Brown et al., 2000, p. 272). Following Heclo’s (1974) work, Dolowitz and Marsh (1996, p. 344) inform that ‘‘policy transfer, emulation, and lesson drawing all refer to a process in which knowledge about polices, administrative arrangements, institutions etc. in one time and/ or place is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements and institutions in another time and/or place.’’
