Approaches to Transferable Learning in Comparative Policy Analysis and Practice

The five articles collected in this special issue build on current scholarship to examine under-explored facets of policy learning that improve or degrade its transferability, including career portability, multi-level collaboration, regional leadership, crisis learning, vicarious learning and single-case learning, aided by abduction and phronesis. The articles place these concepts within the context of existing theoretical frameworks and point to directions for future research into transferable learning in comparative public policy and public management. Although many organizational settings pose large obstacles to learning transfer, practical steps can be taken to improve individual and institutional capacities.