This course will develop students’ knowledge on the major conceptual approaches that have been developed for policy transfer and lesson learning in policy-making. Students will critically assess and synthesize the applicability of these concepts for analyzing public policy development in East Asia in the context of an increasingly pluralized world. Major public policy areas (for example, environment, education, social security, or health care) will be identified for comparison in light of the global public policy trends and changing governance models in public policy. Students will apply theories and evidence from other countries and reflect on processes of policy transfer to into Greater China (Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan) to enable them to question policy processes, synthesize knowledge from different places and disciplines and consider the nature of policy in Greater China.