Bounded rationality and policy diffusion : social sector reform in Latin America /

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Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weyland, Kurt Gerhard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Decision making > Latin America > Case studies.
Policy sciences.
Prise de décision > Amérique latine > Études de cas.
Sciences de la politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Decision making
Policy sciences
Social policy
Sozialreform
Sozialpolitik
Sociale hervormingen.
Beleidsvorming.
Besluitvorming.
Buitenlandse invloeden.
Latin America > Social policy > Case studies.
Amérique latine > Politique sociale > Études de cas.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Latijns-Amerika.
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The puzzle of policy diffusion
  • Towards a new theory of policy diffusion
  • External pressures and international norms in pension Reform
  • Cognitive heuristics in the diffusion of pension reform
  • External pressures and international norms in health reform
  • Cognitive heuristics in the diffusion of health reform
  • Bounded rationality in the era of globalization.

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