Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Drawing on theory and cases, the authors present slowly matured, insightful, and agenda-setting scholarship on the accelerated development, fast cross-border transfer, and quick implementation of welfare and labor market policies."—Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK
"Fast Policy is a publication full of methodological innovations, a fruitful dialogue between in-depth case study research and theory formulation, and the valiant act of discussing important substantive questions across the boundaries of various disciplines."—Journal of Economic Geography
"A compelling landmark study in the heretofore insufficiently researched domain of policy transfer analysis. Moreover, it is written in a colorful, thoroughly engaging style, rare for a book on public policy."—CHOICE
"Fast Policy marks an interesting new step in the research trajectory that Peck and Theodore have shared for years."—Social Service Review
"Peck and Theodore have developed a rich and original approach to thinking about how transnational networks and relationships have profoundly transformed policy-making in the contemporary period."—European Journal of Sociology
Table of ContentsContents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Policies without Borders
Part I. In Pursuit of Fast Policy
1. Geographies of Policy
2. Reflections: Pursuing Projects, Following Policies
Part II. Social Policy as Practical Science
3. New Ideas for New York City
4. Globalizing Social-Policy Expertise
5. Reflections: Tailwinds, Turning Points
Part III. Propagating Progressive Practice
6. Porto Alegre as Participatory Laboratory
7. Democracy on the Move
8. Reflections: Headwinds, Hollowing Out
Conclusion: Exploring (Fast) Policy Worlds
Notes
Bibliography
Index
