By Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore
We inhabit a eternally accelerating and more and more interconnected international, with new rules, fads, and models relocating at social-media velocity. New coverage rules, specifically “ideas that work,” at the moment are capable of finding not just a world viewers but additionally transnational salience in remarkably brief order.
Fast Policy is the 1st systematic therapy of this phenomenon, person who compares techniques of coverage improvement throughout swiftly relocating fields that emerged within the worldwide South and feature fast been followed worldwide⎯conditional funds transfers (a social coverage software that stipulations funds on behavioral compliance) and participatory budgeting (a type of citizen-centric city governance). Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore significantly research the transforming into transnational connectivity among policymaking arenas and modes of coverage improvement, assessing the consequences of those advancements for modern policymaking. Emphasizing that coverage types don't easily go back and forth intact from websites of invention to websites of emulation, they problematize quick coverage as a phenomenon that's genuine and consequential but susceptible to misrepresentation.
Based on fieldwork carried out throughout six continents and in fifteen nations, Fast Policy is a vital source in delivering a longer theoretical dialogue of coverage mobility and in proposing a strategy for ethnographic study on worldwide social policy.
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This is followed by an examination of more structurally oriented theories of transition, in which ruptural or crisis-driven processes of policy transformation are privileged over the incrementalism of the diffusion studies. Finally, the emergence of a more recent, neodiffusionist approach is considered, in which various forms of induced and coerced policy mobility are evaluated against choice-based models. indd 5 18/02/2015 11:01:56 AM 6 Geographies of Policy Policy transfer Policy mobilities Origins Disciplinary: political science Transdisciplinary: anthropology, geography, heterodox political science, comparative political economy, sociology, urban planning Privileged analytical object “Successful” transfers: conspicuous jurisdictional bordercrossing Policies in motion/interconnection: continuous transformation and mutation Social action Instrumental: bounded rationality Strategic: embedded calculation Dynamic Frustrated replication of best (or better) practices Contradictory reproduction of connected but unevenly developing policy regimes Spatiality Sequential diffusion Relational connection Epistemology Positivist/rationalist Postpositivist/constructivist Explanation Reification of essentialized design features Contextually sensitive analysis of emergent capacities Approach Abstracts from politics of knowledge and practice Problematizes politics of knowledge and practice Figure 1.
Their daunting task, which was likened to “rebuilding the ship at sea,” entailed a series of transformations in policy rationales, instruments, and rules. indd 15 18/02/2015 11:01:57 AM 16 Geographies of Policy counterpoint to portrayals of policy transfer and diffusion processes in supposedly “normal” times and places, they also throw into sharp relief the question of the normative and practical geographical origins of mobile policy fixes. Do these diffuse, intact, from hegemonic capitals to global peripheries, or are new dialogic connections being forged in these circumstances of often asymmetrical power relations?
On the other hand, the limits and uncertainties of the Bank’s hegemonic reach are also revealed: domestic politics continue to exert a major influence on project design and implementation, permitting second-and third-generation mutations to occur, “in the wild,” which often contradict preferred paths of policy development, and which sometimes even open the door to alternatives. Our second reflections chapter, “Tailwinds, Turning Points,” first calls attention to the enormous momentum generated behind the “paradigm positive” policy program that is CCTs, which has been powerfully steered, most notably by the World Bank, through a combination of financial incentives and technocratic persuasion.