Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation

Edited by Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil

Contents:

Foreword xiii
Jacint Jordana
Acknowledgements xvi
1 A prelude to policy transfer research 1
Osmany Porto de Oliveira

PART I CONCEPTS AND METHODS
2 Learning and transfer: who learns what from whom? 26
David P. Dolowitz
3 Mechanisms of policy transfer and policy diffusion 43
Johanna Kuhlmann
4 Translation and translators in policy transfer processes 58
Patrick Hassenteufel and Ulrike Zeigermann
5 Collaborative event ethnography as a strategy for analyzing policy
transfers and global summits 80
David Dumoulin Kervran
6 Policy mobilities as comparison: urbanization processes, repeated
instances, topologies 100
Jennifer Robinson

PART II AGENTS AND STRUCTURES
7 International organizations as complex agents in policy transfer processes 121
Magdaléna Hadjiisky
8 International agencies and urban policy diffusion 155
Richard Stren
9 Private consultants and policy advisory organizations: a blind spot on
policy transfer research 173
Diane Stone, Leslie A. Pal and Osmany Porto de Oliveira
10 Instrument constituency and policy transfer: how a collective actor
mediates the transnational movement of policy instruments 196
Michael Howlett and Kidjie Saguin
11 Travelling across developing countries: unpacking the role of South–
South Cooperation and civil society in policy transfer 214
Laura Trajber Waisbich, Melissa Pomeroy and Iara Costa Leite
12 Defending the realm: knowledge networks, regime maintenance and
policy transfer 237
Leslie A. Pal and Jennifer Spence

PART III CULTURE, CONTEXT AND DIRECTIONS
13 Understanding the role of culture in policy transfers 258
Giulia C. Romano
14 Circulations of planning ideas and urban policy mobilities in Latin America 278
Camila Saraiva, Guillermo Jajamovich and Gabriel Silvestre
15 Social policies in movement: diffusion and transfer in Latin America 298
Cecilia Osorio Gonnet
16 Policy transfer in Asia 317
Kidjie Saguin and Kritika Sha
17 Policy transfer within the European Union and beyond: Europeanization
in times of stability and crises 337
Ramona Coman and Elsa Tulmets

PART IV POLICY INSTRUMENTS
18 The diffusion of democratic innovations 365
Gilles Pradeau
19 Policy transfer of environmental policy: where are we now and where
are we going? Examples from water, climate, energy, and waste sectors 386
Raul Pacheco-Vega
20 Policy transfer research in the rural sector 406
Eric Sabourin and Carolina Milhorance
21 Policy transfer in the health sector 425
Matthias Brunn
22 The diffusion of regulatory governance innovations: a research synthesis 443
Fabrizio De Francesco

Index 463