Hulme, Robert I.Hulme, Moira2013-03-272013-03-272008-06-20In N. Yeates (Ed.), Understanding global social policy (pp. 49-71). Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy9781861349439http://hdl.handle.net/10034/276152This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep.This book chapter contrasts 'policy transfer' and 'travelling and embedded policy'. Policy transfer helps to explain the use of knowledge from elsewhere in decision-making processes. Travelling and embedded policy sheds light on the complex relationships between supranational, cross-national, regional and sectoral influences on policy making. Examples of education policy are used to illustrate the processes of global social policy making. In doing so, the chapter offers a particular focus on how global social policy agendas are mediated or negotiated by policy communities and networks in producing 'local' policy settlements.englobal social governancepolicy learningpolicy sociologyepistemic communitiespolicy networkBook chapter