This book presents, uniquely, a variety of cases from differing national and international contexts that enable a valuable, comparative analysis of policy transferring and learning that is absent from most books currently available. These cases suggest a number of exciting research directions with implications for policy making, transference and implementation in the future.

Introduction Part I: Degrees of Transfer and Their Determinants 1. When Policy Diffusion does not lead to Policy Transfer: Explaining Resistance to International Learning in Public Management Reform 2. Policy Transfer and Local Government Performance Improvement Regimes 3. Low Impact Development - The Transfer that was Not?: How the Federal Relationship in the Area of Environmental Protection Facilitates Innovation but Mitigates against Transfer 4. Policy Transfer in New Democracies: Challenges for Public Administration 5. Why can't you Lead a Horse to Water and make it Drink?: The Learning Oriented Transfer of Health Sector Decentralization Reforms and Bureaucratic Interests in Malawi Part II: New Developments in Transfer and Learning 6. Sources of Transfer: The Case of Accession to International Organizations 7. Borrowing from the Neighbours: Policy Transfer to Tackle Climate Change in the Australian Federation 8. "These are the People You Need to Talk to": The Role of Non-State Organizations in International Policy Transfer to Ireland's Official Languages Act (2003) 9. Contested Policy Transfer: When Chile's 'Programa de Mejoramiento de la Gestión' Travelled to Mexico Conclusions

Peter Carroll is Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the co-editor of Regulating International Business (2008, Pearson Prentice Hall) and co-author of An Introduction to the Creative Economy (2007, McGraw-Hill)

Richard Common is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Business School, UK. He has written articles recently published in Public Management Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Public Administration and Development and his main teaching interests are public management in general and HRM and change management in particular