Geographies of policy knowledge: The state and corporate dimensions of contemporary policy mobilities

Bok, Rachel; Coe, Neil M.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.01.001

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“…State and corporate actors are often integral in the mobilisation of policy ideas and progressing (through investment) to implementation. The transnational links of corporations and their motivation to maximise profits means that firms are important agents driving economic activity and the circulation of policy frameworks that structure such interaction (Bok and Coe, 2017). Transnational processes of standardisation and norm-setting across numerous professions (such as engineers) and industrial sectors have also strengthened the policy agency of private firms (Grubbauer, 2015;Larner and Laurie, 2010).…”

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“…Economic actors are experienced in the transfer of expertise across space and locations and they have an interest to frame issues and policy responses in ways that extend their interests (Faulconbridge, 2015). While industry-specific agents (such as banking associations or representatives of extraction industries) may be active in the circulation of policy models, global and national consultants are also active as non-state intermediaries mobilising and relocating policy ideas (Bok and Coe, 2017;Prince, 2014). As with the earlier discussion on experts, much of this work may be focused on best practice models, though often commercialised models, and the transfer of other 'policy products' that worked elsewhere are also included (Faulconbridge, 2015).…”

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“…The work of consultants is noted for their capacity to rearticulate policy concepts into universally digestible forms, often emphasising quantitative measures as hard, neutral evidence of activity, impact and value (Prince, 2014). Analysing the role of private sector agents highlights the increasing corporatisation of policy circulation in certain arenas, and has been well documented in areas of infrastructure, planning and property development (Bok and Coe, 2017;Faulconbridge, 2015;Grubbauer, 2015).…”

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Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

Baker¹,

Walker²

2019

Public Policy Circulation

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Contemporary policy work is deeply informed by the circulation of policy initiatives and models from other jurisdictions. Sometimes close and at other times distant, the influence of various 'elsewheres' (Allen and Cochrane, 2007) has become a routine feature of the policy process. Researchers from a range of academic disciplines have matched the increased traffic of policy knowledge with a growing body of knowledge that seeks to document and understand it. While political scientists have the longest history of engagement with travelling policy, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, urban planners and other social scientists have joined the fray in recent years, creating a lively multidisciplinary research effort (Benson and Jordan, 2011; McCann and Ward, 2012). Yet, for the most part, this research effort has been disjointed. Despite having a common interest at their core (the movement of policy), there are largely separate conversations occurring, structured around concepts such as policy diffusion, policy learning, policy transfer and policy mobility. These conversations have 'lived together apart' for some time now, but appear to be converging toward a focus on diverse arenas, agents and actions implicated in the circulation of policy. We have also seen shifts from structure-agency binaries to notions of contextually-embedded agency, from neat, spatially and temporally delimited processes to messy, ongoing processes, and from an exclusive interest in the 'why' of travelling policy to a broader set of research questions regarding the 'how'. In this book we use 'policy circulation' as an expedient umbrella term that signifies this emergent zone of common ground. We intend the notion of policy circulation to be largely agnostic (in ontological, epistemological and methodological terms), but it is inescapably oriented toward the work involved in moving policy and the ongoing nature of such efforts. It provides a loose conceptual and empirical space in which Policy Diffusion Policy diffusion emerged as a distinct area of inquiry in the 1960s, put to the task of studying patterns of intra-national policy adoption in the context of United States federalism. Policy diffusion studies seek to map and explain sequential patterning related to the uptake of 'policy innovations'-defined by Walker (1969, p. 881) as 'a program or policy which is new to the state adopting it'-to understand when and why certain jurisdictions adopt policies from other jurisdictions (see Simmons and Elkins, 2004; Levi-Faur, 2005; Simmons et al., 2006). Although the term 'policy diffusion' is often invoked to describe 'a process through which policy choices in one country affect those made in a second country', Marsh and Sharman (2009, pp. 270-71) argue that those researching policy diffusion more often have in mind 'a process of interdependent policy convergence'. Here, the choices of governments are not just interdependent, whereby 'the choice of a government influences the choices made by others and, conversely, the choice of a governmen...

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Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

Baker¹,

Walker²

2019

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“…Las políticas económicas, medioambientales, sociales y de educación figuran entre las más estudiadas por esta corriente; y, en particular, las políticas urbanas por parte de la geografía (Bok & Coe, 2017;Cook, 2008;Cook & Ward, 2011;Gonzalez, 2011;Jajamovich, 2016;McCann & Ward, 2011;Stead, de Jong & Reinholde, 2008;Temenos & McCann, 2012). Estos trabajos se han interesado por los mecanismos de comparación, el papel de los consultores, think tanks y gobiernos en el policy making urbano.…”

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El turismo en el medio rural en España desde el enfoque de la transferencia de políticas públicas

Hernández

2019

BAGE

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Cuando se cumplen casi tres décadas desde el arranque del turismo rural en España, se percibe un déficit de atención a la circulación de los instrumentos y modelos que han marcado su desarrollo. Sin embargo, los procesos de recomposición del medio rural europeo están profundamente afectados por flujos globales de políticas públicas en las que el turismo ocupa un lugar predominante. Por ello esta investigación propone una lectura del desarrollo del turismo en el medio rural a través del marco de la transferencia de los programas LEADER y Planes en Destino, instrumentos de la Política Europea de Desarrollo Rural y de la Política Turística nacional, respectivamente. Adoptando el marco analítico propuesto por Dolowitz y Marsh (2000) se hace recapitulación de la literatura que estudia la implantación de ambas políticas con el objetivo de sistematizar y caracterizar su transferencia. En particular, se aporta el estudio de su contenido desde una perspectiva evolutiva atendiendo a los modelos de turismo que se ponen en circulación.

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“…In that regard, policy mobility literature offers an excellent point of departure for engaging with how the logic of finance travels globally. On a site-specific level, existing research highlights the role of local policy advisors in the dissemination of urban models (Wood, 2015), while more recent research has responded to calls to move beyond a focus on public sector actors only (Stone, 2004), arguing that consultants and other private sector actors are increasingly part of the global flow of information (Bok and Coe, 2017). At the same time a macro-level analysis has focused on the role played by international bodies (Stone, 2004), including UNHabitat and the World Bank.…”

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The global politics of an urban age: creating 'cities for all' in the age of financialisation

Robin

Brill

2018

Palgrave Commun

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Our globalised and increasingly urban world demands an understanding of how ideas about how to build cities travel to become embedded in places. In this context, private actors operating across borders such as investors, real estate developers, international consultants, global construction companies and engineering firms appear as key agents of change in cities. However, real estate developers' interactions with local stakeholders and their role in territorialising global financial strategies have been relatively under-explored in urban studies and global discussions about our 'urban future', especially within discussions on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA). This paper aims to initiate future research on this topic, providing some preliminary reflections on the role of developers as key transfer agents in the global movement of capital and its anchoring in places through the transformation of the urban built environment. In this way, we hope to offer some clarity on the transnational movement of financial capital to new places and markets, asking how real estate developers contribute to the dissemination of a global capitalist logic across cities, and what challenges this poses to the implementation of the NUA? To do so, the piece brings together insights from policy mobility literature and recent work on the financialisation of urban developments with the aim of critically assessing whether and how some of the key objectives of the NUA can be achieved in a context characterised by heavy involvement by real estate actors in city-making.

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Geographies of policy knowledge: The state and corporate dimensions of contemporary policy mobilities

Cited by 58 publications

References 37 publications

Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

El turismo en el medio rural en España desde el enfoque de la transferencia de políticas públicas

The global politics of an urban age: creating 'cities for all' in the age of financialisation

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