Lecture 3

Question 1

what is policy transfer?

Answer 1

a process by which knowledge about how policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in one political setting (past or present) is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in another political setting.

Question 2

what are three types of policy transfer?

Answer 2

Contents (thematic policy) –> clusters, campus, blockchain, lightrail, cycle highways

Policy process –> participation

Institutional/ideational –> polder model, triple helix, economic board

Question 3

Why policy transfer between countries

Answer 3

Learning from ‘success stories’

Not ‘reinventing the wheel’

Sharing tools and subsidy opportunities for policy-making

Creating ‘networks of practices’ to make good policies contagious

Save money and time

Question 4

transferability of best practice

Answer 4

Depends on the extent to which practices can be made transferable (scripted for policy learning), and the extent to which it becomes visible and appealing from its own context (eg Barcelona superblocks, brainport Eindhoven).

Question 5

Lessons for policy learning

Answer 5

‘middle ground’ between ‘good governance’ and ‘power relations’

Comparative learning

Understanding complexity, discourse and evolution

Sharing and transcending context