Aprendiendo o emulando? Cómo se difunden las políticas sociales en América Latina

Can I borrow this? Policy transfer from Chile to Paraguay in the wave of diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in Latin America

“…Administrative capacity is particularly relevant for analysis in transfer processes since it is understood as the development of human resources and the state's organizational apparatus, bureaucratic equipment, quality of the system of rules of the game, and internal coherence (Evans, 1996;Geddes, 1994;Grindle, 1997). This concept can be further complemented by the notion of institutional capacity already used in diffusion mechanisms (Osorio Gonnet, 2018b) and understood as the actors' knowledge resources-databases, documents, studies, and evaluations, among others-and their willingness to cooperate. These components-human resources, bureaucratic teams, technology and information management, internal coherence, and coordination capacity-are factors that will influence the transfer mechanism.…”

“…Since the mid-1990s, Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) have been introduced in Latin America to provide monetary support to families living in poverty under certain conditions (Cecchini & Madariaga, 2011). Since then, the region has seen a process of diffusion of these programs (Osorio Gonnet, 2018b, 2020bSugiyama, 2011), which 18 of the 20 Latin American countries have adopted, with a reach of more than 130 million people by 2015 (Cecchini & Atuesta, 2017;Cecchini & Madariaga, 2011). Flagship programs were Oportunidades (later Prospera) in Mexico and Bolsa Familia in Brazil (Kauchakje, 2014), and other initiatives had common characteristics, although with varying focuses (Cecchini & Madariaga, 2011).…”