Storytelling and Policy Transfer

This article argues that policy narratives underpin the mechanisms driving policy transfers. It applies the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine the policy narratives of the transfer agent and recipient, involved in the introduction of disaster risk reduction policy to West Africa. The articl...

Fuld beskrivelse

Enregistré dans:
Bibliografiske detaljer
Udgivet i:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/irpp,
Hovedforfatter: Soremi, Titilayo
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: International Review of Public Policy 2020
Fag:
Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Beskrivelse
Summary:This article argues that policy narratives underpin the mechanisms driving policy transfers. It applies the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine the policy narratives of the transfer agent and recipient, involved in the introduction of disaster risk reduction policy to West Africa. The article analyses the narrative setting, character, plot and moral depicted by the actors in their policy narratives and explains how these narrative elements informed the observation of the transfer mechanism of obligation.