Exporting workfare/importing welfare-to-work: exploring the politics of Third Way policy transfer

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New Approaches to Employability in the UK: Combining ‘Human Capital Development’ and ‘Work First’ Strategies? (2007, background): “attributes that will equip people to find and retain suitable jobs, and advance through in-work progression routes (Peck and Theodore, 2001).”
Mobilising Urban Policies: The Policy Transfer of US Business Improvement Districts to England and Wales (2008, background): “From featuring in good-practice regeneration guides to being the subject of study tours and international conference presentations, these places, policies and their apparent successes have been translated into a wide variety of ‘off-the-peg’ policy remedies (Peck and Theodore, 2001, p. 433).”
Conferences, informational infrastructures and mobile policies: the process of getting Sweden ‘BID ready’ (2012, background): “…of this work has focused on the means by which cities are constituted through their positionality in geographically stretched policy networks (Peck and Theodore, 2001, 2010a, 2010b; Ward, 2006, 2007, 2010a, 2010b, 2011; Cook, 2008; McCann, 2008, 2011; McCann and Ward, 2010, 2011; Prince,…”
Political Economies of Scale: Fast Policy, Interscalar Relations, and Neoliberal Workfare* (2002, background): “Interpretive difficulties arise here, however, because this complex and ongoing process is simultaneously one of disorganization/dissolution and reorganization/reconstruction (Altvater 1992; Jessop and Peck 2000; Peck and Tickell 2002).”