Diane Stone holds her permanent position is as Professor in the Department of
Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick where she has been based
since January 1996. She is on leave as a Winthrop professor in Political Science and
International Relations at the University of Western Australia in Perth. She is also
Professor in the Department of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest
and was the Founding Director of the CEU's Master's Program in Public Policy
(MPP). From 2004 to 2008, she was Marie Curie Chair in the Center for Policy Studies with
a European Commission Fp6 award. She teaches in the area of public policy, globalisation
and governance. 

While working in the World Bank Institute in Washington DC. she was a member of the
Secretariat that launched the Global Development Network in 1999 subsequently becoming a
member of its Governing Body for three years. In addition, she is a member of the Council
of the Overseas Development Institute - a London based think tank. Professor Stone is a
founding member of the Steering Committee of the Researchers Alliance for Development and
from 2007 to 2009 Chair of RAD. 

From 2005-2008 she was co-editor of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and
International Institutions sponsored by the Academic Council of the United Nations
System.

Knowledge utilization

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Transfer and Translation of Policy, Policy Studies (2012)

The past two decades have seen a wealth of papers on policy diffusion and policy...

 

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• RAPID Knowledge: ‘Bridging Research and Policy’ in International Development at the Overseas Development Institute, Public Administration and Development (2009)

Numerous organizations advocate the need to ‘bridge research and policy’. Donors such as philanthropic foundations,...

 

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Market Principles, Philanthropic Ideals and Public Service Values: The Public Policy Program at the Central European University, PS: Political Science and Politics (2007)

Just as there was a boom in the establishment of Master’s of Business Administration over...

 

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Garbage Cans, Recycling Bins or Think Tanks? Three Myths about Policy Institutes, Public Administration (2007)

The phrase ‘think tank’ has become ubiquitous – overworked and underspecified – in the political...

 

Global Policy

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The ASEAN-ISIS Network: Interpretative Communities, Informal Diplomacy and Discourses of Region, Minerva (2011)

A network of think tanks–the ASEAN-Institutes of Strategic and International Studies and their researchers–have played...

 

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Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities and their Networks, Policy Studies Journal (2008)

Public policy has been a prisoner of the word ‘state’”. The state is re-configured by...

 

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Transfer Agents and Global Networks in the ‘Transnationalisation’ of Policy, Journal of European Public Policy (2004)

This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/knowledge transfer processes to suggest...