The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among
developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the …

In the past decades a fast-growing movement of public policies crossing borders has
emerged, bringing new dynamics to public policymaking. A tipping-point was set with the fall …

Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve
everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation …

The importation of foreign models is part of Brazil's institution building story, owing to its
Portuguese colonisation and the influence of European countries and the United States …

Most research in policy transfer studies focused on cases of policies originating from the
'Global North'. However, recently countries of the 'Global South'became sources of models …

The diffusion of liberal economic ideas has been challenged by three global shifts: a bipolar
tilt, nationalism, and climate change. One consequence is that policy norms are originating …

More than 60 countries have implemented a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program. The
predominant CCT narrative begins from programs created in Mexico and Brazil in the mid …

Since the 2016 Habitat III conference, the global urban policy framework based on the New
Urban Agenda and the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDG11) has been adopted …

With the growth of globalization, comparative policy analysis became increasingly
challenging. The contemporary transnational nature of public policymaking processes …

The paper engages with the policy mobilities debate by examining the 2016 Ecuadorian
spatial planning law. It explores the existing tensions between the constitutional framework …