caa a22 4500 445887168 CHVBK 20180317145603.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11133-011-9194-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11133-011-9194-0 Swiss Liam Department of Sociology, Memorial University, A1C 5S7, St. John's, NL, Canada aut Security Sector Reform and Development Assistance: Explaining the Diffusion of Policy Priorities among Donor Agencies [Elektronische Daten] [Liam Swiss] This paper employs a world society theoretical framework to examine the recent trend among foreign aid donors to focus on security sector reform as an aid priority. Through a comparative qualitative case study based on interview data collected from aid officials and development workers in Canada, Sweden, and the United States (n = 41) in 2006-2007, this paper finds that the extent to which the security sector reform agenda is integrated into donor policy and programs is mediated by catalytic policy processes linked to intergovernmental organizations and the degree of donor agency autonomy from the rest of government. These findings are used to illustrate how common processes of globalization in world society shape similar approaches to foreign aid among donor agencies despite disparate domestic contexts. These processes lead to convergence of donor policy around security issues and at the same time can account for decoupling of practice from world society policy models. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Security sector reform nationallicence Donor agencies nationallicence Development assistance nationallicence Globalization nationallicence World society theory nationallicence Decoupling nationallicence Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/2(2011-06-01), 371-393 0162-0436 34:2<371 2011 34 11133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-011-9194-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-011-9194-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Swiss Liam Department of Sociology, Memorial University, A1C 5S7, St. John's, NL, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Qualitative Sociology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/2(2011-06-01), 371-393 0162-0436 34:2<371 2011 34 11133 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer