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Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations
Jamie Peck,Nik Theodore +1 more
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In the special issue on mobilizing policy as mentioned in this paper, the authors contrast traditional approaches to policy transfer with an emerging body of work in the interdisciplinary field of critical policy studies, where the governing metaphors are those of mobility and mutation (rather than transfer, transit, and transaction).About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2010-03-01. It has received 807 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Policy transfer & Policy studies.read more
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Geographies of policy From transfer-diffusion to mobility-mutation
TL;DR: This article developed a geographical approach to the issues of policy transfer and transformation, taking the form of a critical dialogue with three literatures at the borderlands of political science, comparative institutionalism, and political sociology.
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The city as assemblage: dwelling and urban space
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider what assemblage might offer a conception of the city and argue that it is particularly useful for conceiving the spatiality of a city as processual, relational, mobile, and unequal.
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Bilbao and Barcelona ‘in Motion’. How Urban Regeneration ‘Models’ Travel and Mutate in the Global Flows of Policy Tourism:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how the so-called Bilbao effect and Barcelona Model are diffused internationally through what may be called urban policy tourism: short trips made to Bao and Barcelona by policy-makers to learn from their regeneration in the past 15 years.
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Assembling Urbanism: Following Policies and ‘Studying Through’ the Sites and Situations of Policy Making
Eugene McCann,Kevin Ward +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the methodological consequences of studying the chains, circuits, networks, and webs in and through which policy and its associated discourses and ideologies are made mobile and mutable.
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Neoliberal Urbanism Redux
TL;DR: In this article, critical urban theory adopts a restlessly antagonistic stance towards orthodox urban formations and their dominant ideologies, institutional arrangements and societal effects, tracking their endemic policy failures and crisis tendencies while at the same time demarcating potential terrains for heterodox, radical and/or insurgent theories and practices of emancipatory social change.
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Who Learns What from Whom: a Review of the Policy Transfer Literature
David P. Dolowitz,David Marsh +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the literature on policy transfer can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on the transfer of specific policies as a result of strategic decisions taken by actors inside and outside government.
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