Transfer agents and global networks in the ‘transnationalization’ of policy

2004/01/01 by Diane Stone · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Policy Transfer and Learning #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Political Influence and Corporate Strategies #Policy transfer #Redress #State (computer science) #Knowledge transfer #Political science #Global governance #Corporate governance #Political economy #Economic system #Sociology #Public administration #Economics

paper · doi:10.1080/13501760410001694291

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/ knowledge transfer processes to suggest a dynamic for the transnationalization of policy results. The paper seeks to redress the tendency towards methodological nationalism in much of the early policy transfer literature by bringing to the fore the role of international organizations and non-state actors in transnational transfer networks. Secondly, attention is drawn to ‘soft’ forms of transfer – such as the spread of norms – as a necessary complement to the hard transfer of policy tools, structures and practices and in which non-state actors play a more prominent role. Thirdly, transnational networks are identified as an important vehicle for the spread of policy and practice not only cross-nationally but in emergent venues of global governance.

Citations

• Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State: The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain
• Globalization and Policy Convergence
• The lessons of learning: Reconciling theories of policy learning and policy change
• Who Learns What from Whom: A Review of the Policy Transfer Literature
• Learning from Abroad: The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy‐Making

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