Policy transfer using the ‘gold standard’: exploring policy tourism in practice
基于对韩国政府官员赴英国考察的访谈，研究政策旅游如何实际运作，发现它很少直接导致政策改变，但有助于持续的政策学习过程。
Policy transfer features prominently in the policy analysis literature, yet relatively little is known about how government officials seek to learn lessons from abroad in practice. This research, based on interviews with officials in government institutes in South Korea who were involved in a series of study visits to the United Kingdom, addresses this knowledge gap using Evans and Davies’ policy transfer network model and the recently developed notion of ‘policy tourism’. We conclude that policy tourism rarely leads directly to policy change but is a valuable part of ongoing processes of policy learning.