ABSTRACT
As noted in the Introduction, the traditional image of the making and administration of policy suggested that it took place on a national and incremental basis, involving public servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety of interest groups. A first aim of this book was to help dispel that typical image by providing a series of case studies embedded in varying theoretical contexts that illustrated how, why and with what impact policy is transferred from one jurisdiction to another. They do this in admirable fashion, based on a variety of case studies from a variety of national and international contexts. All of them also show that governments very rarely transfer an entire policy to their own domestic context. Rather, what they transfer is, most typically, only one or more aspects of an already existing policy, tailoring it to meet their own particular needs, constrained by a wide range of factors, both domestic and international.
