Mark Evans - Policy Transfer in Global Perspective

POLICY TRANSFER IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

To my Mother, Anne,
with love

Policy Transfer in
Global Perspective

Edited by

MARK EVANS

University of York, UK

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Policy transfer in global perspective

1. Political planning 2. Culture diffusion

I. Evans, Mark, 1965

320.6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Policy transfer in global perspective / [edited] by Mark Evans.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7546-3206-7

1. Comparative government. 2. Policy sciencesCross-cultural studies. 3. Political planningDeveloping countries. 4. Diffusion of innovationsDeveloping countries. I. Evans, Mark, 1965

JF51.P645 2004

320.6dc22

2004007444

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3206-1 (hbk)

Contents

Mark Evans

Mark Evans

Mark Evans with Paul McComb

Mark Evans

Stella Ladi

Veronica Ivanova and Mark Evans

Andrew Street

Pedro Flores-Crespo

Richard Common

Anthony Nedley

Xenia Lana and Mark Evans

Mark Evans

Tables

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Richard Common is a Lecturer in public management and Head of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in the Business School at Hull University in the United Kingdom.

Mark Evans is a Professor in public policy and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of York in the United Kingdom.

Pedro Flores-Crespo is a Lecturer in the Research Institute for the Development of Education (INEDE) of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico.

Veronica Ivanova is a PhD student in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.

Stella Ladi is a Lecturer in politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Xenia Lana is a postgraduate student in the Department of Politics at the University of York in the United Kingdom.

Paul McComb is a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Social Security in the United Kingdom.

Anthony Nedley is Country Director of Action Aid Mozambique.

Andrew Street is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Health Economics at the University of York in the United Kingdom.

In compiling this book, I have benefited enormously from conversations over the years at Economic and Social Research Council sponsored seminars with David Marsh, Charles Raab and David Dolowitz, with colleagues in the Department of Politics at the University of York, particularly Keith Alderman, and, with five of my PhD students, Richard Common, Pedro Flores-Crespo, Oscar Huerta Melchor, Stella Ladi and Khariah Mokhtar. The Departments MA in Public Administration has also proved to be an important forum for the development of ideas on the study of policy transfer, thanks to the high quality of student participation. I also owe intellectual debts to Jonathan Davies and Philip Cemy. Several of the chapters in this volume refer to collaborative work that I completed with Jonathan in 1998 and 1999 on policy transfer. In particularly, I gratefully acknowledge the influence of his ideas on the importance of validation in policy transfer analysis and in the formulation of my methodological arguments. also draws on collaborative work that Phil and I have conducted on the rise and development of the competition state in the United Kingdom (1999; 2003; and, 2004) and, thus I acknowledge a huge debt to his exhaustive work in this area.

My debts to all of these people are considerable. However, I would particularly like to thank Jim Buller and Rob Hulme for their input at the beginning of this project. Jim provided me with some insightful commentary on early versions of two of the case study chapters and conversations with Rob have helped to shape some of my thoughts on the structure of the volume. As always, however, the responsibility for shortcomings in this work rests entirely with my co-authors and me.

Finally, the love and support of my wife Loma, my son Jack and my daughter Caitlin was, as always, invaluable during long periods spent locked away in my study.