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Policy Convergence, Transfer and Learning in the UK under Devolution [PDF]

open access: yesRegional and Federal Studies, 2012
This paper explores the policy transfer and learning process within the UK since 1999, examining the conditions in which transfer takes place among central and devolved governments.
Michael Keating   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Policy Transfer

2022
Abstract The modern epoch of public policy is increasingly susceptible to the influence of social, economic, and political pathologies beyond national borders. Responding to these dynamics, Public Policy scholars have turned their attention to their common theoretical and empirical footing they share with their International Political ...
LEGRAND, Timothy, STONE, Diane Lesley
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Overseas and over here: policy transfer and evidence-based policy-making

open access: yesPolicy Studies, 2012
This article examines the relationship between evidence-based policy-making and policy transfer. The policy transfer framework has been widely employed across a range of disciplines in recent years, yet has also attracted criticism for its failure to ...
Tim Legrand
exaly   +2 more sources

Using Bisimulation for Policy Transfer in MDPs

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010
Knowledge transfer has been suggested as a useful approach for solving large Markov Decision Processes. The main idea is to compute a decision-making policy in one environment and use it in a different environment, provided the two are ”close enough”.
Pablo Samuel Castro, Doina Precup
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Policy transfer in Asia

2021
Owing to the institutional diversity within the region, policy transfer among countries in Asia is often not used to explain domestic policy changes. But the growing evidence of the spread of policies in various areas within the region suggests otherwise.
Saguin, K., Sha, K.
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Policy Transfer and the Internationalisation of Social Policy

Social Policy and Society, 2005
This article analyses the theoretical utility of policy transfer in developing perspectives on international and comparative social policy. It argues that existing work on policy transfer provides us with a theoretical tool to connect perspectives on international policy change, by focussing on the knowledge base of policy and the motivations of actors
openaire   +1 more source

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