Transfer agents and global networks in the ‘transnationalization’ of policy

Bibliographic Data

ID6289997
AuthorsDiane Stone (0000-0003-3783-3789, Centre for Social Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume11
Issue3
Pages545-566
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501760410001694291
OpenAlexW1998406205
LanguageEN
Citations received429
References cited25

This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/ knowledge transfer processes to suggest a dynamic for the transnationalization of policy results. The paper seeks to redress the tendency towards methodological nationalism in much of the early policy transfer literature by bringing to the fore the role of international organizations and non-state actors in transnational transfer networks. Secondly, attention is drawn to 'soft' forms of transfer – such as the spread of norms – as a necessary complement to the hard transfer of policy tools, structures and practices and in which non-state actors play a more prominent role. Thirdly, transnational networks are identified as an important vehicle for the spread of policy and practice not only cross-nationally but in emergent venues of global governance. Keywords: Global policyinternational organizationnetworksnon-state actorspolicy transfersocial learning

Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Global governance · Knowledge transfer · Policy transfer · Political economy · Political science · Redress · Sociology · State (computer science · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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