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Diane Stone is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research predominantly spans the social sciences, with significant contributions in political science and international relations, as well as business, management, and accounting. The scientist's primary academic focus is on policy transfer and learning, political influence and corporate strategies, international development and aid, European Union policy and governance, disaster management and resilience, community health and development, and Turkey's politics and society.

Stone's scholarly output includes publications in the following venues:

  • Policy and Society
  • Policy Sciences
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives" (2020), published in Policy Sciences
  • "Transnational Administration of Regional and Global Policies" (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • "Governing global policy: what IPE can learn from public policy?" (2021), published in Policy and Society
  • "'State captured' policy advice? Think tanks as expert advisors in the Western Balkans" (2023), published in Policy and Society
  • "Expert knowledge for global pandemic policy: a chorus of evidence or a clutter of global commissions?" (2023), published in Policy and Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stone include:

  • Tim Legrand
  • Christopher M. Weible
  • Daniel Nohrstedt
  • Paul Cairney
  • David Carter

Stone's main fields of research are:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting

The subfields of study encompass:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Strategy and Management
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Development
  • General Health Professions

Core topics covered in Stone's work are:

  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • International Development and Aid
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Community Health and Development
  • Turkey's Politics and Society

Best Publications

  • Transfer agents and global networks in the 'transnationalization' of policy

    Diane L Stone

  • Learning Lessons and Transferring Policy across Time, Space and Disciplines

    Diane Stone

  • Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities, and their Networks

    Diane L Stone

  • Transfer and translation of policy

    Diane L Stone

  • Learning lessons, policy transfer and the international diffusion of policy ideas

    Diane Stone

  • Non-state actors and authority in the global system

    R.A. Higgot;G.R.D. Underhill;A. Bieler

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives.

    Christopher M. Weible;Daniel Nohrstedt;Paul Cairney;David P. Carter

  • Non‐Governmental Policy Transfer: The Strategies of Independent Policy Institutes

    Diane Stone

  • Capturing the Political Imagination: Think Tanks and the Policy Process

    Diane Stone

  • Think tanks across nations : a comparative approach

    Diane Stone;Andrew Denham;Mark Garnett

  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance: The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    D. Stone

  • Introduction: global knowledge and advocacy networks

    Diane Stone

  • Global public policy and transnational administration

    Diane Stone;Stella Ladi

  • Understanding the transfer of policy failure: Bricolage, experimentalism and translation

    Diane Stone

  • Recycling Bins, Garbage Cans or Think Tanks? Three Myths Regarding Policy Analysis Institutes

    Diane L Stone

  • Think Tanks, Global Lesson-Drawing and Networking Social Policy Ideas

    Diane Stone

  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance: The Public-Private Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    Diane Stone

  • The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations : How International Bureaucracies Produce and Mobilize Knowledge

    Diane Stone

  • Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models

    Diane Stone;Osmany Porto de Oliveira;Leslie A. Pal

  • Using Knowledge: The dilemmas of 'Bridging Research and Policy'

    Diane Stone

  • The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration

    D. Stone;K. Moloney

  • Think Tanks and Policy Advice in Countries in Transition

    Diane Stone

  • Think tank traditions : policy research and politics of ideas

    Diane Stone;Andrew Denham

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Beeson
Mark Beeson University of Technology Sydney
Karin Ingold
Karin Ingold University of Bern
Richard Higgott
Richard Higgott Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Tanya Heikkila
Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver
Paul Cairney
Paul Cairney University of Stirling
Jan Aart Scholte
Jan Aart Scholte Leiden University
John Ravenhill
John Ravenhill University of Waterloo
Allan McConnell
Allan McConnell University of Sydney
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University

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