China's Governance Openness and Reforms

This book aims to make a theoretical, empirical, and prescriptive contribution to the contemporary study of policy learning. In the first regard, it observes that-despite bold claims to the contrary-most studies of policy learning 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