Definition
Policy learning is a common learning process whereby knowledge, policies, or administrative arrangements shift from one nation or policy domain to another.
Introduction
The earliest formal identification by the Western world of policy learning is that of Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics in which he recommended that the Polis should engage in drawing positive and negative lessons from the development of great city states (see Evans and Marsh 2012). By the end of the twentieth century, scholars such as Common (2004), Carroll and Common (2013), Rose (2005), Evans (2012), and Dolowitz and Marsh (1996) have used the concept of policy transfer as an umbrella term for defining a range of processes of learning which integrates different policy elements from different types of organization. Indeed, policy learning theory has increasingly been used as a practical tool for affecting “quick fix” and...
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Zhang, Y. (2017). Theory of Policy Learning, China. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3354-1
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