Abstract
An explanation of how and why proposals to establish offices modelled after the Scandinavian ombudsman came initially to be made in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States between 1957 and 1960. The study illuminates the much neglected subject of public policy innovation, the process whereby hitherto unknown public policy proposals are introduced into a political system. The importance of scholars as policy innovators and of the timing of innovation proposals is demonstrated as well as the phenomenon of the multiple independent articulation of the same proposal.
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