TY - JOUR
T1 - The policy transfer model
T2 - A tool to help social workers engage in successful policy making
AU - Lightfoot, Elizabeth
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - “New” social welfare policies are often actually policies borrowed from other states or nations. This paper reviews the recent theoretical developments in understanding the processes of policy transfer and presents a “policy transfer” model that can be a useful heuristic tool for social workers engaged in policy making. It discusses how the field of social work can benefit from understanding the factors underlying successful and unsuccessful policy transfer, and argues for the inclusion of the study of policy transfer in social welfare policy courses.
AB - “New” social welfare policies are often actually policies borrowed from other states or nations. This paper reviews the recent theoretical developments in understanding the processes of policy transfer and presents a “policy transfer” model that can be a useful heuristic tool for social workers engaged in policy making. It discusses how the field of social work can benefit from understanding the factors underlying successful and unsuccessful policy transfer, and argues for the inclusion of the study of policy transfer in social welfare policy courses.
KW - Policy borrowing
KW - Policy diffusion
KW - Policy transfer
KW - Prospective evaluation
KW - Social policy
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U2 - 10.1300/J185v02n01_03
DO - 10.1300/J185v02n01_03
M3 - Article
SN - 1533-2942
VL - 2
SP - 21
EP - 34
JO - Social Policy Journal
JF - Social Policy Journal
IS - 1
ER -