Introduction: policy paradigms, transnationalism, and domestic politics. -- Ideas and discourse in transformational political economic change in Europe. -- Transnational policy paradigm change and conflict in the harmonization of vehicle safety and accounting standards. -- Constructing a transnational paradigm in the European Union: the case of GMO risk regulation. -- Same-sex unions legislation and policy paradigms: something borrowed, yet something new. -- Normative contexts, domestic institutions, and the transformation of immigration policy paradigms in Canada and the United States. -- Canadian refugee policy: understanding the role of international bureaucratic networks in domestic paradigm change. -- Institutional 'Stickiness' and ideational resistance to paradigm change: Canada and early childhood education and care (ECEC). -- Conclusion.

1. Policy sciences
2. Political planning -- Canada
3. International agencies
4. International organization