TY - RPRT U1 - Arbeitspapier A1 - Willing, Holger T1 - International Policy Learning & Policy Change: Scientific Inputs for the Dialogue on Social Protection with Global Partners N2 - Over the past two decades social protection has gained importance at the international and the national level of many low and middle income countries. Despite reforms in this sector being a global phenomenon, they differ from country to country. Traditional efforts to explain these dif- ferences focus on domestic factors. Yet it remains unclear how international influences and interdependencies contrib- ute to policy change. The study ‘International Policy Learn- ing and Policy Change’ aims at providing an answer to this question, by focusing on ‘soft governance’ via horizontal processes, meaning processes between equal actors. The studie was carried out in two parts. While in Part I the cur- rent state of the art in relevant research fields was assessed, in Part II the findings from Part I were used to conduct a survey which analyses the role of policy networks. UR - https://mia.giz.de/qlink/ID=44694000 SP - 4 S1 - 4 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH CY - Bonn ER -