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Policy Transfer or Muddling Through

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6326329
AutoresP D Dwyer (0000-0003-1799-5318, Nottingham Trent University), Peter Dwyer (0000-0002-2297-2375, The Graduate School, Business, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK), Nick Ellison (0000-0002-6348-655X, University of Leeds)
Año2009
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas389-407
Fecha de publicación2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
EditorialBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557309x435862
OpenAlexW2035231162
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas48

This article explores current thinking about policy learning and transfer, using recent work on the ‘Americanisation’ of UK active labour market policies as a focus of discussion. While it is clear that the UK has learned from the US in certain respects, academic debates about the US–UK policy relationship are marked by accounts of learning and transfer that depend on a highly rational interpretation of these processes. The article reviews current debates in the policy transfer literature and applies a critical view of policy learning and transfer to key accounts of labour market activation policies before moving on to consider how useful the concept of policy transfer really is in an increasingly complex, plural and ‘de-institutionalising’ world

Economics · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Plural · Policy learning · Policy transfer · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Philosophy · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies