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Introduction / Peter Carroll and Richard Common. -- Part I: Degrees of transfer and their determinants -- When policy diffusion does not lead to policy transfer: explaining resistance to international learning in public management reform / Richard Common -- Policy transfer and local government performance improvement regimes / Sandra Nutley ... [et al.] -- Low impact development (LID) - the transfer that was not?: How the federal relationship in the area of environmental protection facilitates innovation but mitigates against transfer / David P. Dolowitz -- Policy transfer in new democracies: challenges for public administration / Riin Savi and Tiina Randma-Liiv -- Why can't you lead a horse to water and make it drink?: The learning oriented transfer of health sector decentralization reforms and bureaucratic interests in Malawi / Richard I.C. Tambulasi. -- Part II: new developments in transfer and learning -- Sources of transfer: the case of accession to international organizations / Peter Carroll -- Borrowing from the neighbours: policy transfer to tackle climate change in the Australian federation / Robyn Hollander -- "These are the people you need to talk to": the role of non-state organizations in international policy transfer to Ireland's Official Languages Act (2003) / Clare Rigg, Muiris (acute)O Laoire and Vasiliki Georgiou -- Contested policy transfer: when Chile's 'programa de mejoramiento de la gesti(acute)on' travelled to Mexico / Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna -- Conclusions / Peter Carroll and Richard Common.