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

Introduction (Peter Carroll and Richard Common)  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 (Richard Common)  2. Policy Transfer and Local Government Performance Improvement Regimes (Sandra Nutley, James Downe, Steve Martin and Clive Grace)  3. Low Impact Development - The Transfer that was Not?: How the Federal Relationship in the Area of Environmental Protection Facilitates Innovation but Mitigates against Transfer (David P. Dolowitz)  4. Policy Transfer in New Democracies: Challenges for Public Administration (Riin Kruusenberg and Tiina Randma-Liiv)  5. 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 (Richard I.C. Tambulasi)  Part II: New Developments in Transfer and Learning  6. Sources of Transfer: The Case of Accession to International Organizations (Peter Carroll)  7. Borrowing from the Neighbours: Policy Transfer to Tackle Climate Change in the Australian Federation (Robyn Hollander)  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) (Clare Rigg, Muiris O Laoire and Vasiliki Georgiou)  9. Contested Policy Transfer: When Chile's 'Programa de Mejoramiento de la Gestion' Travelled to Mexico (Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna)  Conclusions (Peter Carroll and Richard Common)