The project examines how interwar Romanian political elites selectively defined ratification and implementation or lack thereof of specific ILO conventions. Focusing on two mirroring conventions, I argue that policy learning is not homogenous and can only be explained in bottom-top fashion. Since actors define transfers simultaneously in cultural, political and economic terms, I show that internationalization often involves goal displacement, resulting from open-ended elite ideational debates.

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