MEYER ENTERPRICE{LTD}

MEYER ENTERPRICE{LTD} is rated 3 out of 5 in the category architecture & planning. Read and write reviews about MEYER ENTERPRICE{LTD}. THE DOMESTICATION OF WORLDWIDE POLICY MODELS This paper discusses the implementation of exogenous policy models by nation-states in the light of the domestication framework. It is concluded that a nation-state can be considered as a local place, or even as some kind of machine that produces contexts for people’s activities. With its standardised practices the nation-state tends to homogenise different neighbourhoods and make them translocal. However, the isomorphic development of separate nation-states does not mean that all national features are gradually disappearing from the world. Cultural differences are continuously produced and reproduced in the social processes triggered by individuals and social groups negotiating changing contexts, whether the changes are due to the world market, adaptive policy models or any other intervention. In my current research project we address the question of how we can account for uniform changes in most advanced market economies, for instance the recent neoliberal reforms. That is both an enigma and an object of debate within the social sciences and in public discussion. Yet how we perceive isomorphic development is important. If the explanations portray social changes as inevitable and political reforms as having no alternatives, they contribute to a depoliticization of politics In the research project we approach global social change from the viewpoint of nation states: how they implement exogenous policy models. Our aim is to acquire a better understanding of how nationstates, as formal sovereign actors, adopt them and thereby create isomorphic developmental trends. For instance, how are exogenous models justified in public texts so that policy makers acquire the support of the majority of voters behind them? To tackle these questions we apply the concept of domestication to global governance. In this paper I discuss the theoretical and conceptual problems faced in this undertaking.