Bearing tales: networks and narratives in social policy transfer

In the concluding contribution to this issue, this article asks how patterns in the movement of social policies between nations can be explained. It particularly highlights the ways in which policies often move in clusters from ‘model’ nations outward. The article finds answers in the asymmetries of...

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Published inJournal of global history Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 301 - 313
Main Author Rodgers, Daniel T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2014
Subjects
Narratives
Networks
Social economics
Social policy
Social security
Transfer
socialized Germany
narratives
social policy transfer
networks
policy clusters
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Summary:In the concluding contribution to this issue, this article asks how patterns in the movement of social policies between nations can be explained. It particularly highlights the ways in which policies often move in clusters from ‘model’ nations outward. The article finds answers in the asymmetries of social policy networks and, most importantly, in the power of the narratives through which policy models travel.
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ISSN:1740-0228
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DOI:10.1017/S1740022814000084