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Political-Cultural Propinquity in the Anglosphere

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The Architecture of Policy Transfer

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The Anglosphere represents an unusually apt lens through which to explore the structural dimensions of policy transfer. Shared foreign policy initiatives between the Anglosphere states are numerous and stem largely from their shared history. Prominently, they share ideological and administrative traditions such as a commitment to a mixed economy, legal systems based on common law tradition, an open society, the values of liberal democracy and so on. This chapter unpacks these dynamics. Drawing on assemblage, constructivist and transgovernmental perspectives, the chapter holds culture, values and norms as critical to the coalescence of cross-border policy relations and an important additional explanation of how transnational collaborative environments emerge. These, it is suggested, facilitate (i) the transfer of policy ideas to resolve domestic policy problems and (ii) establish collaborative mechanisms to resolve transnational challenges. Consideration of these novel public sector ‘assemblages’ deepens our empirical and theoretical knowledge of the new spaces of transnational administration.

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Legrand, T. (2021). Political-Cultural Propinquity in the Anglosphere. In: The Architecture of Policy Transfer. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55821-5_4

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