Geographies of policy : from transfer-diffusion to mobility-mutation

Jamie Peck

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Abstract

The paper develops a geographical approach to the issues of policy transfer and transformation, taking the form of a critical dialogue with three literatures at the borderlands of political science, comparative institutionalism, and political sociology. Making the case for moving beyond rational-choice frameworks and essentialized, formalist representations of policy transfer, the paper advocates a social-constructivist understanding of policy mobilities-and-mutations, sensitive to the constitutive roles of spatiotemporal context.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)773-797
Number of pages25
JournalProgress in Human Geography
Volume35
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • political science
  • political sociology
  • urbanism

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