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

Introduction  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  2. Policy Transfer and Local Government Performance Improvement Regimes  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  4. Policy Transfer in New Democracies: Challenges for Public Administration  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  Part II: New Developments in Transfer and Learning  6. Sources of Transfer: The Case of Accession to International Organizations  7. Borrowing from the Neighbours: Policy Transfer to Tackle Climate Change in the Australian Federation  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)  9. Contested Policy Transfer: When Chile's 'Programa de Mejoramiento de la Gestion' Travelled to Mexico  Conclusions