Ideology and Networks: The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges

doi:10.1353/lar.0.0057

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“…Drawing upon the importance of interdependence within policy diffusion, the fourth mechanism is domestic and international knowledge networks. Formal networks (e.g., professional associations) and informal networks (e.g., policy communities) can create social pressure for policymakers to behave in a certain way (Stone, 2015; Sugiyama, 2008; Tsingou, 2015).…”

Section: Bridging the Gap: Policy Momentummentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining transgender policy change: Policy momentum in Canada and Australia

McMahon

2023

Governance

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Western democracies are experiencing a widespread shift towards greater recognition of transgender rights in public policy, yet the timing of change differs across states. To explain this variation, I present a novel theoretical framework called “policy momentum.” Unlike existing work on policy diffusion, which typically emphasizes domestic or international processes, I theorize how the combined pressure from each level creates the conditions for policy change to occur. Empirically, I contrast the creation of national human rights policies to protect transgender individuals in Canada (2017) and Australia (2013). Using process‐tracing and within‐case analyses, and drawing on elite interviews, primary documents, and Hansard records, I demonstrate the decisive interaction of subnational legislative changes with an emerging global norm to produce transgender policy change. This paper thus contributes to our understanding of LGBTQ+ public policy while also providing a framework for explaining the conditions for cross‐national policy change more broadly.

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Section: Bridging the Gap: Policy Momentummentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining transgender policy change: Policy momentum in Canada and Australia

McMahon

2023

Governance

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“…Policy diffusion is applied across a wide range of topics (Graham et al., 2013; Shipan & Volden, 2012). One central area is social policy, including for example, welfare policy (Collier & Messick, 1975; Karch, 2007; Kemmerling, 2018; Obinger et al., 2013) and social services (Betz & Neff, 2017; Sugiyama, 2008). Other significant thematic areas are morality policy (Godwin & Schroedel, 2000; Mooney & Lee, 1999; Velasco, 2018), health policy (Gilardi et al., 2009; Shipan & Volden, 2012; Weynland, 2019), environmental policy (Arbolino et al., 2018; Kern, 2000; Kern et al., 2007; Matisoff, 2008), energy policy (Aglanu, 2016; Baldwin et al., 2019; Berry et al., 2015; Carley et al., 2017; Matisoff & Edwards, 2014), and climate policy (Bromley‐Trujillo & Poe, 2020; Jordan & Huitema, 2014; Kammerer & Namhata, 2018; Kern et al., 2023).…”

Section: Exploring Policy Diffusion Policy Transfer and Policy Mobili...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy diffusion, policy transfer, and policy mobilities revisited: A call for more interdisciplinary approaches in human geography

Haupt

2023

Geography Compass

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Geographers and urban studies scholars tend to rely on policy mobilities approaches to explain processes of policy spread, whereas political scientists and public policy scholars usually draw on either policy diffusion or policy transfer. I challenge this widespread scholarly practice of selecting approaches based on the association with a certain discipline. Instead, first and foremost, the specific research aim(s) and question(s) should shape the choice of theoretical lens. Analytical or policy outcome‐oriented studies should rely on policy diffusion and policy transfer, while a policy mobilities approach is best suited for more (policy) critical analysis. The approaches can also complement each other to a certain degree. Analytical and policy outcome‐oriented approaches need a stronger critical perspective while policy mobilities scholars need to underpin their critique with constructive suggestions on how to improve established practices.

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“…In the case of CCTs, studies analyzing the policy's adoptions through the lens of diffusion theories follow the general patterns of the literature of policy diffusion. Multiple studies argue that a country's exposure to successful CCT models in the region influences its decision to adopt the model (Brooks 2015;Papadopoulos and Velázquez Leyer 2016, 440;Osorio Gonnet 2020, 109;Sugiyama 2011). Other explanations include promotion by international organizations (Sugiyama 2011;Papadopoulos and Velázquez Leyer 2016, 440) and epistemic communities (Osorio Gonnet 2019), and the emergence of global norms (Sugiyama 2011).…”

Section: Diffusion Waves and Diffusion Surgesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These factors refer to how the policy idea travels and is received across borders-but they do not explain why governments adopt the idea much faster than other ideas traveling in similar ways. These diffusion analyses of CCTs neglect the political aspect of policymaking, looking mainly at countries' characteristics, such as income and inequality (Osorio Gonnet 2020), socioeconomic conditions (Sugiyama 2011), and state capacity (Osorio Gonnet 2019; Sugiyama 2011)-and yielding mixed results. The exception is the finding that democratic countries are more prone to adopting the policy (Brooks 2015;Papadopoulos and Velázquez Leyer 2016).…”

Section: Diffusion Waves and Diffusion Surgesmentioning

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Surges vs. Waves: Presidents, Popularity, and the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America

Vega

2023

Lat Am Polit Soc

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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a striking case of policy diffusion in Latin America. Almost all countries in the region adopted the model within one decade. While most theories of diffusion focus on the international transference of ideas, this article explains that surge of adoptions by analyzing presidents’ expectations. Out of all ideas transmitted into a country, only a few find their way into enactment and implementation, and the executive has a key role in selecting which ones. Policies expected to boost presidents’ popularity grab their attention. They rapidly enact and implement these models. A process-tracing analysis comparing CCTs and public-private partnerships (PPPs) shows that presidents fast-tracked CCTs hoping for an increase in popular support. Adoptions of PPPs, however, followed normal procedures and careful deliberations because the policy was not expected to quickly affect popularity—which, in the aggregate, leads to a slower diffusion wave.

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Ideology and Networks: The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil

Cited by 30 publications

References 127 publications

Explaining transgender policy change: Policy momentum in Canada and Australia

Explaining transgender policy change: Policy momentum in Canada and Australia

Policy diffusion, policy transfer, and policy mobilities revisited: A call for more interdisciplinary approaches in human geography

Surges vs. Waves: Presidents, Popularity, and the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America

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