2. Ein Forschungsrahmen zur Erfassung der Komplexität von Politiktransfers

This chapter is dedicated to the theoretical and conceptual framework. The research benefitted of a double-level framework that combined a series of approaches to focus on the process of policy transfer from micro- and macro-perspectives. This framework helps take into account the multiple rationalities, interests and objectives that have an impact on the transfer process, attributable to various levels of the state as well as to the different professional and political positions existing in diverse departments and units of different government levels. To provide both a macro- and micro-perspective on the transfer and learning process, the framework combines Peter Hall’s conceptualisation of „paradigm shifts“, John Kingdon’s Multiple Stream Framework, and the insights of the sociology of translation.