Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation (Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series)

This important Handbook brings together preeminent scholars, both from Global South and North, sharing their comparative and international perspectives on the topic. Their original contributions cover the key issues and questions around policy transfer research. Offering a pluralist perspective and focusing on critical areas of research including policy transfer, diffusion, circulation and mobilities, this Handbook overcomes epistemological and methodological cleavages in the field. Opening with a series of discussions on the concepts and advancements in the study of policy transfer, the Handbook moves to an examination of agents and structures involved in the process. The Handbook also sheds light on the role of culture and context, with chapters devoted to Asian, Latin American and European particularities. Altogether, chapters illuminate how rich and provocative the current debate on the interpretation of policies moving across borders is and the vibrancy of the area’s research within the broad planet of public policy analysis. Presenting a ground-breaking and unique contribution to the area of public policy analysis, the Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation will be a useful resource for well-established scholars, researchers, policy-makers and both post graduate and undergraduate students in this field. Contents 6 List of contributors 8 Foreword xiiiJacint Jordana 14 Acknowledgements 17 1 A prelude to policy transfer research • Osmany Porto de Oliveira 20 PART I: CONCEPTS AND METHODS 44 2 Learning and transfer: who learns what from whom? • David P. Dolowitz 45 3 Mechanisms of policy transfer and policy diffusion • Johanna Kuhlmann 62 4 Translation and translators in policy transfer processes • Patrick Hassenteufel and Ulrike Zeigermann 77 5 Collaborative event ethnography as a strategy for analyzing policy transfers and global summits • David Dumoulin Kervran 99 6 Policy mobilities as comparison: urbanization processes, repeated instances, topologies • Jennifer Robinson 119 PART II: AGENTS AND STRUCTURES 139 7 International organizations as complex agents in policy transfer processes • Magdaléna Hadjiisky 140 8 International agencies and urban policy diffusion • Richard Stren 174 9 Private consultants and policy advisory organizations: a blind spot on policy transfer research • Diane Stone, Leslie A. Pal and Osmany Porto de Oliveira 192 10 Instrument constituency and policy transfer: how a collective actor mediates the transnational movement of policy instruments • Michael Howlett and Kidjie Saguin 215 11 Travelling across developing countries: unpacking the role of South–South Cooperation and civil society in policy transfer • Laura Trajber Waisbich, Melissa Pomeroy and Iara Costa Leite 233 12 Defending the realm: knowledge networks, regime maintenance and policy transfer • Leslie A. Pal and Jennifer Spence 256 PART III: CULTURE, CONTEXT AND DIRECTIONS 276 13 Understanding the role of culture in policy transfers • Giulia C. Romano 277 14 Circulations of planning ideas and urban policy mobilities in Latin America • Camila Saraiva, Guillermo Jajamovich and Gabriel Silvestre 297 15 Social policies in movement: diffusion and transfer in Latin America • Cecilia Osorio Gonnet 317 16 Policy transfer in Asia • Kidjie Saguin and Kritika Sha 336 17 Policy transfer within the European Union and beyond: Europeanization in times of stability and crises • Ramona Coman and Elsa Tulmets 356 PART IV: POLICY INSTRUMENTS 383 18 The diffusion of democratic innovations • Gilles Pradeau 384 19 Policy transfer of environmental policy: where are we now and where are we going? Examples from water, climate, energy, and waste sectors • Raul Pacheco-Vega 405 20 Policy transfer research in the rural sector • Eric Sabourin and Carolina Milhorance 425 21 Policy transfer in the health sector • Matthias Brunn 444 22 The diffusion of regulatory governance innovations: a research synthesis • Fabrizio De Francesco 462 Index 482 The literature on policy transfers has focused on learning among governmental agentes, especially states. However, in the contemporary era, agents such as consultancies, international organizations, and specialized private agencies have acquired progressively a more relevant role in policy design and delivery, knowledge production and transnational transfers. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored projects on food security across Southern Countries. Ayala Consulting Group has been assisting to different governments to design Conditional Cash Transfer Programs. Mckinsey is developing and advocating for housing models for African cities. The Rio+ Center in Brazil have fostered sustainable development goals across the world, via the diffusion of best practices. In many instances, these organizational agents partner with counterparts to amplify messages, best-practices, benchmarks and international standards. Partnering with international organizations can provide official patronage and indirectly, legitimacy for the policy instruments or models being diffused. The effect is a convergence among models, which are not necessarily adapted to contexts where they are implemented. Considering the changes in the empirical landscape of policy transfer and the proliferation of new actors both private and intergovernmental, our aim is to present the main issues and questions about the role of the private sector on public policy transfer, as well as their type of engagement, interests, interactions and operational styles "This important Handbook brings together preeminent scholars, both from Global South and North, sharing their comparative and international perspectives on the topic. Their original contributions cover the key issues and questions around policy transfer research. Offering a pluralist perspective and focusing on critical areas of research including policy transfer, diffusion, circulation and mobilities, this Handbook overcomes epistemological and methodological cleavages in the field. Opening with a series of discussions on the concepts and advancements in the study of policy transfer, the Handbook moves to an examination of agents and structures involved in the process. The Handbook also sheds light on the role of culture and context, with chapters devoted to Asian, Latin American and European particularities. Altogether, chapters illuminate how rich and provocative the current debate on the interpretation of policies moving across borders is and the vibrancy of the area's research within the broad planet of public policy analysis. Presenting a groundbreaking and unique contribution to the area of public policy analysis, the Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation will be a useful resource for well-established scholars, researchers, policy-makers and both post-graduate and undergraduate students in this field"-- Provided by publisher This important Handbook brings together preeminent international scholars, sharing their comparative and international perspectives on the topic. Their original contributions cover the key issues and questions around policy transfer, diffusion and circulation research. Altogether, chapters illuminate how rich and provocative the current debate on the interpretation of how public policies travels is and the vibrancy of the area’s research within the broad planet of public policy analysis.