ABSTRACT
This special issue’s main concern has been with evaluating how useful policy transfer analysis is as a descriptive, explanatory and prescriptive theory of policy change. With this aim in mind, it has provided both a response to its critics and a variety of new directions for studying processes of policy transfer. It was hoped that this would allow for the development of a better understanding of the phenomenon of policy transfer and its relationship with global and domestic processes of economic, social and political change. It therefore remains to draw some general conclusions on the implications of our case study findings for the broader study of policy transfer.
