Theory and Practice of Policy Transfer in a Changing China

This book makes a theoretical, empirical and prescriptive contribution to the contemporary study of policy transfer. It observes that despite bold claims to the contrary, 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.