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Researching the Geographies of Policy Mobility: Confronting the Methodological Challenges
Abstract
Introducing the special issue on "Researching the geographies of policy mobility," this paper discusses a series of contributions to the methodological challenges posed by the emergence of approaches that draw on notions of policy assemblages, mobility and mutations.While a series of theoretical developments in recent years have challenged orthodox accounts of policy diffusion and transfer, there has thus far been a lack of methodological reflection.It is to attending to this absence that this special issue concerns itself, with each of the four papers blending empirical, methodological and theoretical insights.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cochrane, A., & Ward, K.
- Venue
- Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-01
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-12
- ISSN
- 0308-518X (ISSN-L)
- 1472-3409
- OpenAlex
- W1967097667
- Cited by
- 212
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 118.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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