Gordon Shen

[ 1 ] - Mental Health Policy Adoption as a Seminal Event: A Response to Recent Commentaries

[ 2 ] - Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy

Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...