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Policy Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Social Policy and Reform Studies, Public Policy and Administration Research, Policy Transfer and Learning.
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago, T&F) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Policy Studies 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Social Policy and Reform Studies Public Policy and Administration Research Policy Transfer and Learning Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism Political and Economic history of UK and US |
| ISSN | 0144-2872 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 3.59 |
| h-index | 67 |
| i10-index | 584 |
| Total citations | 23,526 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Canberra |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com |
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This article argues that the literatures on policy transfer and policy diffusion are complimentary, but need to focus more clearly on five key issues drawing insights from both literatures. First, work in each area can benefit from a greater focus on the changing interactions between the various mechanisms involved in diffusion/transfer. Second, the diffusion literature…
The past two decades have seen a wealth of papers on policy diffusion and policy transfer. In the first half, this paper reviews some of the trends in the literature by looking backwards to the political science diffusion literature, and forwards to the expanding multi-disciplinary social science literatures on policy ‘learning’, ‘mobilities’ and ‘translation’ which…
A growing number of studies have examined the collaboration of actors from two or more policy domains in order to integrate aims and concerns derived from one policy domain into another. In our literature review, we refer to this empirical phenomenon as ‘policy integration’, exemplified by the Health in All Policies approach. Despite the wealth…
The world of public policy is becoming increasingly small due to dramatic changes in global communications, political and economic institutional structures, and to nation states themselves. This article evaluates the implications of these changes and challenges for both the study and the practice of policy transfer and provides an understanding of the relationship between systemic…
This paper outlines an approach to the global circulation of policies/models. This ‘policy assemblage, mobilities and mutations’ approach has emerged in recent years, primarily through the work of geographers. It is both inspired by, and somewhat critical of, the policy transfer approach associated with work in political science. Our argument is that the focus of…
