This is a short response to article,'What Have We Learned from Policy Transfer
Research?'Its point of departure is their claim that 'policy transfer is a useful concept that …

We are very grateful to Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna, Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward for
their constructive and insightful responses to our original article (Benson and Jordan, 2011) …

Over the last decade, policy transfer has emerged as an important concept within public
policy analysis, guiding both theoretical and empirical research spanning many venues and …

The fact that three contributions address the state of policy transfer research and, to an
extent, our contribution to it, suggests that we emphasised, although we did not 'discover', an …

Policy transfer research has been something of a growth industry, reflected in the fact that
Google Scholar identifies 17 articles on the subject with more than 100 citations. Of course …

This paper outlines an approach to the global circulation of policies/models. This 'policy
assemblage, mobilities and mutations' approach has emerged in recent years, primarily …

It has always existed but there can be no doubt that the rapid growth in communications of
all types since the Second World War has accelerated the process. Not surprisingly, the …

The concepts of 'lesson drawing'and 'policy transfer'have become increasingly influential
ways of understanding public policy, especially in the UK. However, the main proponents of …

Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and
settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of …

David Benson and Andrew Jordan's article 'What Have We Learned from Policy Transfer
Research? Dolowitz and Marsh Revisited'provides a timely and interesting assessment on …