Networks of Institutions

The questions such as, `why the focuses of national policies vary significantly across countries, although their sources of policies are to a great extent identical¿; `why national development experiences mostly cannot be transplanted successfully among countries¿; `why some ineffective institutions persist over long periods of time¿, have attracted numerous efforts. This book provides a new perspective and argues that the answers lie in the existence of the networks of institutions and thus of national systems of policies (NSP) within national frameworks.