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Understanding the transfer of policy failure : bricolage, experimentalism and translation
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Stone, Diane (2017) Understanding the transfer of policy failure : bricolage, experimentalism and translation. Policy & Politics, 45 (1). pp. 55-70. doi:10.1332/030557316X14748914098041 ISSN 0305-5736.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14748914098041
Abstract
This article re-assesses some of the literature on policy transfer and policy diffusion in light of ideas as to what constitutes failure, partial failure or limited success. First, the article looks at imperfect, incomplete or uninformed transfer processes as one locus of policy failures. Second, it addresses the concept of ‘negative lesson-drawing’ as well as the role of interlocutors who complicate policy transfer processes between A and B. Third, the idea of ‘transfer’ as a neat linear transmission of an intact policy approach or tool is criticised by drawing attention to the extensiveness of hybridity, synthesis, adaptation and ‘localisation’. Finally, the article concludes that policy ‘translation’ is a better conceptual framework for comprehending and valorising the learning and policy innovations that come with the trial and error inherent in policy-making. This entails an abandonment of perceptions of one-way linear processes of country ‘A’ sending policy to ‘B’ that characterises many policy transfer approaches to a stronger analytical focus on importing countries that translate policies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International relations, International organization | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Policy & Politics | ||||||
Publisher: | The Policy Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0305-5736 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 55-70 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1332/030557316X14748914098041 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 January 2018 | ||||||
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