LIST OF PANELS

The objective of this panel is to analyze in comparative perspective the processes of policy transfer in different institutional contexts.   Our main questions are 1) What are the influence of micro and meso political factors at the decisional stage of the policy transfer process? 2) What domestic factors are involved on the adaptation of policies at the implementation stage? And 3) How and in which cases, the characteristics of the policy transfer process affects its results, generating policy learning, hybridization or innovation. This panel will contribute to the comparative research on public policies in an area of growing interest and complexity, paying special attention to the constraints offered by different political and institutional contexts to its characteristics and outcomes.

This panel focuses on policy transfer studies, defining policy transfer   as "the process by which a political system integrates policies that have previously been used in another political system" Dolowitz (2017). Our interest is to analyze how knowledge is used in the policy making process, how new ideas and policies are "translated" on their way from one system to another during the implementation stage, and what evidence can be provided about the reasons for success or failure of this translations.  We are particularly interested in analyzing the influence of governance, micro politics and institutional factors that influence hybridization, adaptation and mutation of policies, generating different processes of policy learning, innovation or "indigenization of policies" (Stone, 2012). We welcome papers based on theoretical or empirical qualitative and / or quantitative methodologies for the analysis of policy transfer in different institutional contexts.