Policy transfer is a process in which information relating to the operation of one political system is utilised by another political system.
[2] Since then the concept has been developed and applied by urban geographers under the label of mobiblities[3] by Jamie Peck and NikTheodore as Fast Policy[4] and those interested in global networks as policy translations.
[5] Out of these literatures policy transfer has been applied to a range of policies running from zero tolerance policing, welfare-to-work and even Business Improvement Districts and the emergence of bike sharing programs.
Policy transfer has been the subject of considerable academic research, led primarily by political scientists since the late 1990s.
[10] The debates in geography have focused on the technologies and methods through which policies and ideas circulate – such as study tours, conferences and best practice guides – as well as looking at how and why the policies change form as they circulate.