Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Governments transfer knowledge about policies, ideas and institutions between political systems, learning from one another in a process of policy learning; 1) lesson drawing; 2) diffusion; 3) or policy transfer.4) As Dolowitz and Marsh observe: While terminology and focus often vary…studies are concerned with the process by which knowledge about policies, administrative arrangements, institutions, and ideas in one political system (past or present) are used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in another political system.5) As this paper will show, Australia, New Zealand and the Australian states since the 19 th century have shared policy ideas, policy innovations, legislation-and indeed policy personnel-to a remarkable degree.This was to the extent that a shared Australasian model of state development developed and existed for much of the 20 th century.In turn, this model was dismantled in the 1980s and 1990s in a rapid and comprehensive process of economic liberalisation, which also shared important characteristics and was facilitated by trans-Tasman policy transfer and elite networks. The Australasian ColoniesThis Australasian colonial world was strongly interlinked in the late 19 th and early 20 th century and shared imperial officials, labour and business.Governor Hobson came to New Zealand with its annexation by New South Wales in 1840.Sir George Grey was at different times Governor of ──────────────────── １)Heclo, H. 1974.Modern social policy in Britain and Sweden.New Haven, CT: Yale
Author: Shaun Goldfinch
Language: Japanese
Topic: Policy Transfer and Learning
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1480689259