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Geographies of policy

From transfer-diffusion to mobility-mutation

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ID5778849
AuthorsJ Peck (0000-0002-1425-9705, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume35
Issue6
Pages773-797
Publication date2011-02-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132510394010
OpenAlexW2084950160
LanguageEN
Citations received385
References cited67

The paper develops a geographical approach to the issues of policy transfer and transformation, taking the form of a critical dialogue with three literatures at the borderlands of political science, comparative institutionalism, and political sociology. Making the case for moving beyond rational-choice frameworks and essentialized, formalist representations of policy transfer, the paper advocates a social-constructivist understanding of policy mobilities-and-mutations, sensitive to the constitutive roles of spatiotemporal context

Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Historical institutionalism · Institutionalism · Mobilities · New institutionalism · Policy transfer · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Philosophy · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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