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

'This very impressive collection of chapters by established and emerging scholars from different streams of policy transfer provides new insights into the mechanisms and dynamics of policy transfer. Especially important are the several chapters detailing the agents, structures, and outcomes of the travel of policies and their components across countries in the Global South and from them to the Global North.'

• Contents:Foreword xiiiJacint JordanaAcknowledgements xvi1 A prelude to policy transfer research 1Osmany Porto de OliveiraPART I CONCEPTS AND METHODS2 Learning and transfer: who learns what from whom? 26David P. Dolowitz3 Mechanisms of policy transfer and policy diffusion 43Johanna Kuhlmann4 Translation and translators in policy transfer processes 58Patrick Hassenteufel and Ulrike Zeigermann5 Collaborative event ethnography as a strategy for analyzing policytransfers and global summits 80David Dumoulin Kervran6 Policy mobilities as comparison: urbanization processes, repeatedinstances, topologies 100Jennifer RobinsonPART II AGENTS AND STRUCTURES7 International organizations as complex agents in policy transfer processes 121Magdaléna Hadjiisky8 International agencies and urban policy diffusion 155Richard Stren9 Private consultants and policy advisory organizations: a blind spot onpolicy transfer research 173Diane Stone, Leslie A. Pal and Osmany Porto de Oliveira10 Instrument constituency and policy transfer: how a collective actormediates the transnational movement of policy instruments 196Michael Howlett and Kidjie Saguin11 Travelling across developing countries: unpacking the role of South–South Cooperation and civil society in policy transfer 214Laura Trajber Waisbich, Melissa Pomeroy and Iara Costa Leite12 Defending the realm: knowledge networks, regime maintenance andpolicy transfer 237Leslie A. Pal and Jennifer SpencePART III CULTURE, CONTEXT AND DIRECTIONS13 Understanding the role of culture in policy transfers 258Giulia C. Romano14 Circulations of planning ideas and urban policy mobilities in Latin America 278Camila Saraiva, Guillermo Jajamovich and Gabriel Silvestre15 Social policies in movement: diffusion and transfer in Latin America 298Cecilia Osorio Gonnet16 Policy transfer in Asia 317Kidjie Saguin and Kritika Sha17 Policy transfer within the European Union and beyond: Europeanizationin times of stability and crises 337Ramona Coman and Elsa TulmetsPART IV POLICY INSTRUMENTS18 The diffusion of democratic innovations 365Gilles Pradeau19 Policy transfer of environmental policy: where are we now and whereare we going? Examples from water, climate, energy, and waste sectors 386Raul Pacheco-Vega20 Policy transfer research in the rural sector 406Eric Sabourin and Carolina Milhorance21 Policy transfer in the health sector 425Matthias Brunn22 The diffusion of regulatory governance innovations: a research synthesis 443Fabrizio De FrancescoIndex 463