Spatial governance and planning policy transfer in the Global South. The role of international agency and the recirculation of policies

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Table 1. Overview of the different understanding of policy transfer and of the related literature.

Concept	Discipline	Authors	Interest	Focus
Policy transfer	Political science	Dolowitz and Marsh (2000), Evans (2009), etc.	How is transfer of policy taking place pro-actively (voluntary or coercive), what is being transferred, and when it can lead to policy failure?	Content, process, agency
Lesson-drawing	Political science	Rose (1991, 1993, 2004)	Under what circumstances and to what extent can a programme that is effective in one place transfer to another?	Content, process
Policy diffusion/convergence	Political science, planning	Knill (2005), Healey and Upton (2010), etc.	How policies spread by osmosis or contagion?	Adoption pattern
Policy learning and translation	Political science	Dunlop (2009), Stone (2012), etc.	How do policy actors learn from abroad; who facilitates this; how is foreign practice translated to fit the domestic context; how do policy transfer networks facilitate learning?	Process, epistemic communities and networks, translation and learning dynamics
Policy mobilities	Geography	McCann and Ward (2011), McCann (2011), etc.	Linking global circuits of policy knowledge to local policy practice, politics, and actors.	Process, agency, context, spaces

Source: adapted from (Dąbrowski et al., 2020).

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