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Theory and Practice of Policy Transfer in a Changing China (Hardcover)
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Theory and Practice of Policy Transfer in a Changing China (Hardcover)
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This book makes a theoretical, empirical and prescriptive
contribution to the contemporary study of policy transfer. In the
first regard, it observes that despite bold claims to the contrary
(see Dolowitz and Marsh, 1996; and Evans, ed., 2010), most studies
of policy transfer are characterised by their mono-cultural
understanding of the process of policy-oriented learning reflected
in an obsession with the destination of transfer rather than its
original policy setting or settings. This betrays an absence of
strong comparative investigation of the process of learning.
Moreover, existing approaches to the study of policy transfer
networks (the process of policy learning) are limited by their
narrow epistemological perspectives as in the main they tend to
lend undue focus on actors, ideas/interests or structure. Following
the work of Marsh and Smith on policy networks (2000), this book
contends that these elements cannot be separately analyzed. It
therefore advances an interactive model of policy transfer networks
that investigates the process of learning through three interactive
dimensions: between structure and agents, network and context, and
network and outcome. The book's second main contribution - the
presentation of original case study explorations of the role of
policy transfer in facilitating the rise of the Quasi-Competition
State. The book contends that policy transfer has become a key
policy instrument in the process of transition from a command to a
market socialist economy, and latterly to what may be termed a
Quasi-Competition State. Indeed, in order to meet the perceived
imperatives of state transformation, the 'Reform and Open Door'
policy has been featured by a broad range of processes of policy
learning. It is, however, beyond the scope of this book to present
a comprehensive description and explanation of this complex and
multi-faceted reform process, rather the aim of this account is to
provide an examination of certain processes of policy transfer
which are broadly indicative of the dynamics of change underpinning
the incremental process of reform. The third and final contribution
of this book lies in its identification of the ingredients of
rational policy transfer which can hopefully help guide future
Chinese policy-makers to more progressive policy outcomes.
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