Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation

Véronique Wavre is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Economics and Politics (SEPS), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She previously worked at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies (SSIS), University of Exeter, UK. She researches telecommunications policies and state control in the Middle East and Africa.

“Veronique Wavre’s book Policy Diffusion and Telecommunicatons Regulation could be useful for a Nordic reader. … the book would improve your understanding of the Arab Spring, a series of uprisings in MENA countries in 2011. … the most innovative part of the entire study is the method based on state-level and sector-level variables, which the author successfully uses for analysing policy adoption in these specific countries as well as for comparing them to each other.” (Marko Ala-Fossi, Nordicom Review, Vol. 40 (1), 2019)“It is an innovative book, in that it brings together different themes that are usually treated separately, for belonging to different strands of the literature. The outcome is an original monograph that is of interest to students of policy diffusion, telecommunications regulation, European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and MENA countries. … Wavre produced an excellent and original monograph that I recommend to anyone interested in policy analysis in MENA countries, EU Neighbourhood Policy and regulation in developing countries.” (Emmanuelle Mathieu, Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 25 (1), 2019)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Conditions and mechanisms of policy diffusion.- Chapter 3: Measuring policy diffusion.- Chapter 4: Country and sector cases selection.- Chapter 5: Regulatory actors in MENA telecommunications.- Chapter 6: Egypt.- Chapter 7: Morocco.- Chapter 8: Jordan.- Chapter 9: Observation and Conditions of diffusion in comparative perspective.- Chapter 10: Mechanisms of diffusion and telecommunications trends.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.