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Learning from Abroad: The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy‐Making
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In recent years there has been a growing body of literature within political science and international studies that directly and indirectly uses, discusses and analyzes the processes involved in lesson‐drawing, policy convergence, policy diffusion and policy transfer. While the terminology and focus often vary, all of these studies are concerned with a similar process in which knowledge about policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in one political setting (past or present) is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in another political setting. Given that this is a growing phenomenon, it is something that anyone studying public policy needs to consider. As such, this article is divided into four major sections. The first section briefly considers the extent of, and reasons for, the growth of policy transfer. The second section then outlines a framework for the analysis of transfer. From here a third section presents a continuum for distinguishing between different types of policy transfer. Finally, the last section addresses the relationship between policy transfer and policy “failure.”
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“…presence of all the textbook conditions that the literature suggests for learning to take place, including the pressure exerted by economic crises (Dolowitz and Marsh, 2000, p. 7), policy failures and dissatisfaction with the status quo (Rose, 1991, p. 10) and interaction with international…”
Bonjour, S. (2014) · Comparative Migration Studies · doi:10.5117/cms2014.2.bonj · Cited by 35
“It is acknowledged that actors’ rationality is often ‘bounded’ but this is described as the result of incomplete information or external pressure (Dolowitz and Marsh 2000; cf. Holzinger and Knill 2005).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Dolowitz, D. P., & Marsh, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Venue
- Governance
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-23
- ISSN
- 0952-1895 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0491
- OpenAlex
- W2131213453
- Semantic Scholar
- 5a6a4556fc8be4d8d481d76da9ab9e4f1d19ff07
- Cited by
- 3,314
- References
- 26
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- FWCI
- 125.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Governance (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policy Transfer and Learning
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Keywords
- policy transfer, policy diffusion, policy convergence, lesson-drawing, international policy transfer, policy making, policy failure
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