Bringing space back in: towards a geographic perspective on policy mobility
指出社会科学长期忽视政策模型跨地流动的空间问题，强调地理学视角对理解政策流动性的关键作用，尤其在全球互联时代，跨地学习已成必需。
Is there still anything new under the Sun to be discovered on policy learning and policy transfer after decades of research in such disciplines as economics, sociology, political science and public administration? As Jamie Peck’s and Nik Theodore’s recent publication ‘Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the thresholds of neoliberalism’ shows, yes there is: Space . It appears that, so far, social scientists have neglected the fundamental question how policy models travel between places, what happens to them on their journey and through which mechanisms they are adopted once they arrive. Consequently, there is much to learn for other social scientists from the knowledge geographers can bring to the discussion on policy mobility —the concern with ‘trans-local and cross-scalar movements in policy discourses and technologies’ (xxiii). This is particularly so in an increasingly globally interconnected world, in which learning from other places has become a necessity rather than a desirable extra. Indeed, Peck and Theodore go so far as to argue for ‘fast policy’ as a global policy condition characterized by ‘Increased interconnectivity and cross-referential intensity’ (xv). Fast Policy focuses on ‘those social practices and infrastructures that enable and sustain policy ‘mobility’, which enable the complex folding of policy lessons derived from one place into reformed and transformed arrangements elsewhere’ (xvii).