Anis Ben Brik

From Borders to Networks: The Changing Channels of Education Policy Diffusion in the American States

Abstract How do spatial proximity, policy networks, and temporal dynamics interact to shape education policy diffusion across the American states and have these channels of influence changed over time? This study introduces an integrated framework combining spatial-X (SLX) estima...

Social welfare across the Middle East and North Africa: A configurational typology

Abstract Comparative welfare-regime typologies were constructed from a set of wealthy democracies in which several conditions held so reliably that they remained unstated: that welfare systems cover the national population, that financing rests on taxation or contributory insuran...

When Institutions Are Not Enough: Bottleneck Dynamics in Evaluation Capacity Across the MENA Region

This study reconceptualizes evaluation capacity as a noncompensatory system in which specific dimensions function as binding constraints, addressing the puzzle that countries with similar formal capacity scores produce sharply divergent levels of evaluation use. Applying Necessar...