Considerations of the obstacles and opportunities to formalizing cross-national policy transfer to the United States: A case study of the transfer of urban environmental and planning policies from Germany

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 684-697

  Dolowitz, David P ^a   Medearis, Dale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Northern Virginia Regional Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NATIONAL PLANNING; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350658227     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0865j     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (50)

1. Andersen M, Liefferink D (Eds), 1998 European Environmental Policy (Manchester University Press, Manchester)
2. Beatley T, 2000 Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities (Island Press,Washington, DC)
3. Bulmer S, Dolowitz D, Humphries P, Padgett S, 2007 PolicyTransfer in European Union Governance (Routledge, London)
4. Burby R, 2003, "Making plans that matter: citizen involvement and government action" Journal of the American Planning Association 69 33-49
5. Cohen M, March J, Olsen J, 1972, "A garbage can model of organizational choice" Administrative Science Quarterly 17 1-25
6. Cook I, 2008, "Mobilising urban policies: the policy transfer of US business improvement districts to England and Wales" Urban Studies 45 773-795
7. Dolowitz D, 1998 Learning from America (Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, East Sussex)
8. Dolowitz D, Marsh D, 2000, "Learning from abroad: the role of policy transfer in contemporary policy-making" Governance 13 5-24
9. Dumpelmann S, 2005, "The Park International: park system planning as an international phenomena at the beginning of the twentieth century"B ulletin of the German Historical Institute 37 75-86
10. Evans M, Davies J, 1999, "Understanding policy transfer: a multilevel, multi-disciplinary perspective" Public Administration 77 361-385
11. Faludi A, 2002 European Spatial Planning Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA
12. German Federal Ministry of Environment, 2002, "German environmental report 2002: report on environmental policy in the 14th legislative period", German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, Berlin
13. Guba E, Lincoln Y, 1981 Effective Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA)
14. Haas P, 1992, "Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination" International Organizations 46 1-35
15. Hallett G (Ed.), 1988 Land and Housing Policies in Europe and the USA: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge, New York)
16. Heclo H, 1974 Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden (Yale University Press,New Haven, CT)
17. Hirt S, 2007, "The devil is in the definitions" Journal of the American Planning Association 73 436-450
18. Jacoby W, 2000 Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany (Cambridge University Press, New York)
19. Jaenicke M, Weidener H (Eds) 1997 National Environmental Policies (Springer, Berlin)
20. Kayden J S, 2000, "National land-use planning in America: something whose time has never come" Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 3 445-472
21. Kingdon J, 1995 Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies 2nd edition (Harper Collins, New York)
22. Kohut A, 2007, "World publics welcome global trade - but not immigration", The Pew Global Attitudes Project,Washington, DC, http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/258.pdf
23. Latour B, 1986, "The powers of association", in Power, Action and Belief Ed. J Law (Routledge, New York) pp 264-280
24. Lipset S M, 1996 American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword (W W Norton, Boston, MA)
25. Masser I, Williams R, 1986 Learning from Other Countries - The Cross-national Dimension in Urban Policy-making (GeoBooks, Norwich, Norfolk)
26. Miles M, Huberman A, 1994 Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage, London)
27. Miller C, 2001 Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (Island Press, London)
28. Mossberger K, 2000 The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones (Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC)
29. Mossberger K, Wolman H, 2003, "Policy transfer as a form of prospective policy evaluation" Public Administration Review 63 428-440
30. Nivola P, 1999 Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America (Brookings Institution Press,Washington, DC)
31. OECD, 2001 Key Environmental Indicators (OECD Publications, Paris)
32. Peterson J A, 2003 The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917 (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD)
33. Polanyi M, 1967 The Tacit Dimension (Anchor Books, New York)
34. Randolph J, Masters G, 2008 Energy for Sustainability (Island Press,Washington, DC)
35. Robertson D B, 1991 "Political conflict and lesson drawing" Journal of Public Policy 11 55-78
36. Robertson D, Waltman J, 1992, "The politics of policy borrowing" Oxford Studies in Comparative Education 2 25-48
37. Rodgers D, 1998 Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
38. Rogers E, 2003 The Diffusion of Innovations (Free Press, New York)
39. Rose R, 1993 Lesson Drawing in Public Policy (Chatham House, Chatham, NJ)
40. Salskov-Iversen D, 2006, "Learning across borders: the case of Danish local government" International Journal of Public Sector Management 19 673-686
41. Sardar Z, Davies M, 2002 Why Do People Hate America? (Cox and Wyman, Reading, Berks)
42. Stone D, 2001, "Learning lessons, policy transfer and the international diffusion of policy ideal", WP 69/01, Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, Coventry
43. Sutcliffe A, 1981 Towards the Planned City: Germany, Britain, the United States and France 1780-1914 (St Martin"s Press, New York)
44. TewsK, 2005,"The diffusion of environmental policy innovations" European Environment 15 63-79
45. United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2003, "Draft report on the environment", EPA-260-R002-006, Office of Environmental Information and the Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency,Washington, DC
46. Waterhouse A, 1978, "The advent of localism in two planning cultures: Munich and Toronto" Town and Planning Review 50 313-324
47. Wolman H, 1992, "Understanding cross national policy transfers: the case of Britain and the U.S." Governance 5 27-45
48. Wurzel R, 2002, "The europeanization of German environmental policy - from environmental leader to member state under pressure", FFU-report 09/2002, Department of Environmental Politics, Free University of Berlin, Berlin
49. Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT)
50. Yin R K, 1994 Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Sage, Beverly Hills, CA)