ABSTRACT
This paper is one of the first outputs of the research handling the policy formulation process of a case study about the Law No. 6284 Protection of the Family and Prevention of Violence against Women, within the scope of the Public Policy Formulation Project by the authors. The aim of the research is to determine how public policies are placed on the agenda and the impact of pressure groups, and to develop advice by putting forward the similarities and differences between the policy formulation processes of Turkey and other countries. Firstly, in this paper, concepts like policy transfer, policy diffusion, and policy learning are described in a detailed manner by exemplifying and relating them to the case at hand. Secondly, the emphasis is put on the role of the policy transfer in the policy formulation and ongoing debates about the prevention of violence against women. Finally, the paper discusses the findings evaluating the success of policy transfer.
