Policy Transfer and Learning in Public Policy and Management : International Contexts, Content and Development

A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety of interest groups. Yet, much policy making is based on similar policy developed in other jurisdictions and in the major international organizations such as the WTO and the OECD. In other words, significant aspects of nationally developed policies are copied from elsewhere in what is described as a process of policy transfer and learning.Hence, studies of policy transfer have pointed to a d

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Carroll, Peter
Other Persons:	Common, Richard (contributor)
Publisher:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (217 p)
Series:	Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management Ser
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Policy Transfer and Learning in Public Policy and Management; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I Degrees of transfer and their determinants; 1 When policy diffusion does not lead to policy transfer: explaining resistance to international learning in public management reform; 2 Policy transfer and local government performance improvement regimes; 3 Low Impact Development (LID): the transfer that was not? How the federal relationship in the area of environmental protection facilitates innovation but mitigates against transfer 4 Policy transfer in new democracies: challenges for public administration5 Why can't you lead a horse to water and make it drink? The learning oriented transfer of health sector decentralization reforms and bureaucratic interests in Malawi; Part II New developments in transfer and learning; 6 Sources of transfer: the case of accession to international organizations; 7 Borrowing from the neighbours: policy transfer to tackle climate change in the Australian federation 8 'These are the people you need to talk to': the role of non-state organizations in international policy transfer to Ireland's Official Languages Act (2003)9 Contested policy transfer: when Chile's 'Programa de Mejoramiento de la Gestión' travelled to Mexico; Conclusion; Index
ISBN:	978-0-415-69181-9 ; 978-1-135-01229-8 ; 978-0-415-69181-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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