Transfer agents and global networks in the 'transnationalization' of policy

Author: Diane Stone

Source: Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 11, Number 3, June 2004 , pp. 545-566(22)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

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 policy; international organization; networks; non-state actors; policy transfer; social learning

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501760410001694291

Affiliations: 1: Centre for Policy Studies Central European University Budapest Hungary

Publication date: 2004-06-01

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