Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs

This book explains how transnational policy entrepreneurs have contributed to the transfer of the contested concept of 'Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development' (PCSD) in global policy. Tracing the processes by which the PCSD concept has been diffused in an international epistemic community linked to the EU and the OECD, the book offers new insights on international public administrations' influence on global decision-making. It highlights the dynamic and multi-directional character of knowledge circulation in policy transfer. Drawing on case studies from France, the United Kingdom and Germany, the book contributes to current debates on sustainable development, revealing the role of actors and the logics behind 'policy coherence'. Thus, it allows to understand the challenges involved in implementing SDG 17. Given its scope, the book will be of considerable interest to academic audiences and students of international relations and policy analysis, as well as practitioners and public officials whose work involves global sustainability policy.

Advances the concept of transnational policy entrepreneurship Provides new empirical research on global policy transfer Offers an innovative appraisal of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development

Autorentext

Ulrike Zeigermann is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Sustainable Development at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, and an associated researcher at the Marc Bloch Centre.

Inhalt
Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1. Transnational policy entrepreneurs.- Chapter 2. Bureaucratic Influence and Knowledge Circulation in Global Cooperation: A matter of Policy Entrepreneurship.- Part 2: The Emergence And Diffusion Of Policy Ideas On Policy Coherence For Development.- Chapter 3. International Public Administrations of the EU and the OECD and the Identification of Policy Coherence as a Problem for Global Cooperation.- Chapter 4. The PCD Unit of the OECD and Circulation of Knowledge on Policy Coherence for Development.- Chapter 5. An International Epistemic Community for Policy Coherence for Development and the Emergence of Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs.- Part 3: Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs In The Global Debates On A Post-2015 Agenda For Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 6. National Responses to Global Agenda Setting.- Chapter 7. Towards a Convergence of Institutional Structures for Sustainable Development?.- Chapter 8. The Integration of Policy Coherence in the Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 9. Disentangling the notion of Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs: Concluding remarks.