A Persistência da Mobilidade de Políticas:: Múltiplas Origens, Desenvolvimentos Interdisciplinares e Agendas de Investigação Futuras

Starting with the field’s various intellectual antecedents, which reveal the disciplinary elements combined in its constitution, this paper highlights five key characteristics of policy mobilities. We analyze and explore each in turn, discussing epistemological and empirical themes as the field has evolved and expanded over the last twenty-five years. We pay particular attention to contributions from geography and planning, as these studies have sought to explain public policymaking across diverse policy areas such as economic development, education, health, transport, and welfare. We argue for the need to revisit the role of the nation-state in policy mobilities research, a presence that has so far been largely absent in the field. In conclusion, the paper discusses how a focus on scalar politics through the nation-state can enrich future contributions to the field.