Elite, exclusive and elusive: transgovernmental policy networks and iterative policy transfer in the Anglosphere
Date
2016
Authors
Legrand, Tim
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Abstract
The prominent corridor of bilateral policy transfer between Australia
and the UK is underpinned by a long-standing cultural and political
proximity. While ad hoc cases of transfer have in recent years been
the subject to concerted attention from transfer theorists, much less
attention has been given to the rise of multilateral, or
transgovernmental, policy networks based on similar cultural and
political amity amongst the ‘Anglosphere’ group of states
including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
Populated by policy elites and regularly interacting, these
networks represent potentially important modes of policy transfer
yet little is known about how they operate, with what purposes or
what outcomes. This article therefore sets out research findings
that offer an insight into 23 identified networks, suggesting that
understanding the emergence of these networks are crucial to
explaining any bilateral transfer between Anglosphere states in
general, and specifically Australia and the UK. The article contends
that a consideration of these networks provides insight into (i) the
substantive landscape of Anglosphere policy learning and
collaboration, (ii) the attendant dynamics of collaborative policy
networks as elite, elusive and exclusive and (iii) iterative policy
transfers.
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policy transfer, transgovernmentalism, policy networks, transnationalism, policy learning, Anglosphere, UK, Australia
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Policy Studies
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Open Access