Here are some articles that can help:

1. http://jme.bmj.com/content/33/10/591.short

2. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673603140196

3. http://jme.bmj.com/content/34/1/28.short

4. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953604004721

5. http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/6/663.short

6. http://jme.bmj.com/content/34/4/247.short

Many thanks  Jagdish. I will work my way through.

Regards

Debbie

If anyone has knowledge of generic theories/theorists related to international policy exchange between countries this would also be useful.

You should work through the policy convergence, divergence, transfer, diffusion literature as well as the policy learning literature.  Both are huge.

Some places to start:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3277264

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.33.090106.142507

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501760500161332#.VE_s4pPF-R4 (this is a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy on policy convergence)

And of course I have to promote my own work, which uses the policy learning literature on an empirical case study:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cpp/summary/v035/35.3.alcantara.html

and this piece on municipal policy responses within one province:

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_canadian_studies/v046/46.1.alcantara.html

Thank you Christopher. All very helpful and I shall start with your own work!

Regards

Debbie