Policy Transfer Research: Still Evolving, Not Yet Through?

Benson, David; Jordan, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1478-9302.2012.00273.x

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“…To return to the central theme of this article, climate policy actors in Europe appear on the whole to have successfully exploited many of the opportunities afforded by the EU's polycentric form, while minimizing many of its downsides. Lessons may be drawn from this for policy making in similar contexts (Refs 82 and 83). The way in which policy makers have identified the negative aspects and taken effective steps to deal with them (and in doing so been regarded as an important example to follow) is most evident in the history of the ETS, an instrument which embodied a conscious element of ‘learning by doing’.…”

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“…A combination of actor preferences and institutional factors has been seen to underlie the limited use of voluntary agreements, struggles to use labeling schemes, and the continuing failure to agree ambitious eco‐taxes (Ref 28). Innovation, in the sense defined by Benson and Jordan,82,83 has only really been detected with respect to emissions trading, but even here, the EU ETS exhibits a curious hybrid form, encompassing a strong element of regulation 84. Otherwise, instruments tend to be layered on top of one another.…”

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The European Union: the polycentric climate policy leader?

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Jordan

2013

WIREs Climate Change

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The European Union's (EU) claims to be a leader in international climate policy are well known. Since the early 1990s, a rich and vibrant academic literature has analyzed the internal sources and international consequences of its leadership aspirations, especially in relation to the challenges of mitigation. More recently, attention has turned to adaptation policy. The literature highlights how policy actors have successfully exploited many of the opportunities afforded by the EU's 'polycentric' form, while minimizing its downsides, but that acute challenges lie ahead, particularly if a strong global-level framework remains elusive. It has continually underlined the fact that the EU's climate policy activities have enormous relevance well beyond European borders. Both in terms of its role as a driver of international policy and a source of transferable policy lessons on how to govern in 'polycentric' settings, appreciating the EU's experience is vital for those seeking to understand the governance of climate change, both within and between states.

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Jordan

2013

WIREs Climate Change

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“…More recently, Benson and Jordan (, p. 373) have emphasized that policy transfer has grown into an important component of a wider toolbox of public policy research. A recent issue of the Political Studies Review also shows that policy transfer research is well alive (Benson & Jordan, ). Second, since the time James and Lodge commented negatively on the tools available for assessing the causes of policy transfer, a number of policy transfer mechanisms have been identified and can be used to frame the potential reasons underlying the transfer of a policy from one jurisdiction to another.…”

Section: Policy Transfer: Multilevel Analysis and Typology Of Policy mentioning

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Examining the Canadian Government's Resistance to Including Socioeconomic Concerns in Genetically Modified Seeds Regulation: A Policy Transfer and Multilevel Approach

Marcoux

Létourneau

2014

Review of Policy Research

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In 2011, Canadian Members of Parliament refused to transfer a regulatory initiative taken from Argentina that would have required an analysis of potential harm to export markets before authorizing the sale of any new genetically modified seed. This was the purpose of Bill C-474, which was defeated in the House of Commons. After exploring Argentina's regulatory framework as a source of transfer, this paper combines a multilevel analysis with a typology of policy transfer mechanisms in order to address the complexities underlying this unsuccessful attempt. We explore how the mechanisms of competition and coercion might have impeded the transfer of such an initiative at the international and the macro-state levels. Moreover, while a policy transfer network in support of the bill called on previous experiences with genetically modified seeds, their efforts appear to have been outweighed by another network using arguments based on the mechanisms of competition, coercion, and mimicry.

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“…What is special in such a relationship is the "interactive, improvisational character of colonial encounters so easily ignored or suppressed by diffusionist accounts of conquest and domination" [17] (p. 4). The contingent, often unexpected and variegated ways in which the global meets the local in the context of IWRM is what interests us in this article.As Benson and Jordan [22] mentioned, such an emergent and fluid view of "policy in the making" is at odds with more conventional and formulaic approaches of policy design, policy implementation or theories of policy diffusion, policy transfer and learning [22][23][24]. Instead, "policy mobility and translation" as an approach in policy studies, looks at policy movement in a manner that resists attempts to theorize it through various macro-level structures and explanations, and views the ensuing policy process as a micro-political process which is context specific, interactive, improvisational and contingent [21,25,26].…”

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Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

Leong

Mukhtarov

2018

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This article investigates how the “constructivist turn” in public policy and international political economy informs the interaction of global ideas and local practice in water governance. We use the implementation of ideas associated with Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Lower Mekong river basin. This article provides some explanation of the attitudes in the villages in Cambodia due to the Sesan 2 Dam, which would see the relocation of thousands of people, damage fisheries, and inflict high coping costs on villagers. Based on 24 in-depth interviews with villagers, commune heads and local community leaders, we find diverse narratives which transcend the “pro or anti” dam narrative. We find four narrative types—myths, stories, noise and informed opinion, which relate to each other in degrees of social meaning and ideational force. Of these, the first two are more likely to be useful in terms of mobilization and policy-making. This typology provides a framework for analysis of social change in the studied villages and other contexts of policy translation. We should state that these four types are not separate from each other but are linked along two axis which together conscribe the four types of narratives outlined.

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Policy Transfer Research: Still Evolving, Not Yet Through?

Cited by 42 publications

References 15 publications

The European Union: the polycentric climate policy leader?

The European Union: the polycentric climate policy leader?

Examining the Canadian Government's Resistance to Including Socioeconomic Concerns in Genetically Modified Seeds Regulation: A Policy Transfer and Multilevel Approach

Global IWRM Ideas and Local Context: Studying Narratives in Rural Cambodia

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