“…Some of these are abstract, such as ideas, ideologies, principles, discourses, paradigms and so on, while others are more concrete, such as policy models and designs, laws and constitutions, administrative arrangements, forms of government, policy instruments, institutions, etc. To mention just a few examples, scholars have dedicated their research to understand transfer, diffusion, and circulation of the following objects: democratic institutions and participatory democracy (Huntington, 1993;Porto de Oliveira, 2017;Simmons et al, 2010), regulatory agencies (Levi-Faur and Jordana, 2005), pensions (Brooks, 2005), migration policies (Braz, 2018;Channac, 2006;Infantino, 2019), social policies (Kuhlmann et al, 2020;Weyland, 2006), conditional cash transfers (Howlett et al, 2018;Leisering, 2019; Morais de Sá e Silva, 2017; Osorio Gonnet, 2019), transport policies (Ardila, 2020;Mejía-Dugand et al, 2013;Montero, 2017;Wood, 2015b), disaster reduction (Soremi, 2019), rule of law (Dezalay and Garth, 2002), evidence-based health agencies (Hassenteufel et al, 2017), microfinance (Oikawa Cordeiro, 2019), harm reduction (Baker et al, 2020), and administrative capacities (Hadjiisky, 2017), amongst other "objects". An important feature of policy transfer dynamics is that, as will be discussed later, public policies are not transplanted, and don't necessarily displace, as a monolithic block, but instead different policy instruments and components, coming from different origins, are combined and translated to meet the demands in the context and expectations of transfer agents.…”