Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective

Bianculli, Andrea C.; Hoffmann, Andrea Ribeiro

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“…The complexity of social policy governance has triggered new analytical frameworks that depart from prevailing (domestic) comparative political approaches (Kennett, 2013; Surender and Walker, 2013). Moving away from this ‘methodological nationalism’ (Yeates, 2014a), studies on the provision of and regulation of public goods beyond the state have more strongly looked into the global level (Bianculli and Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016b). Focus has been on the international governance of social policy, including the role of international organizations, global networks, and partnerships (Deacon, 2007).…”

Section: What Do We Know About Regional Cooperation and Social Policimentioning

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“…The introduction of new regional political and regulatory initiatives in the social policy domain symbolizes one of the latest changes in the regional cooperation landscape in Latin America but also beyond. These empirical developments have ushered in new analyses that paint an increasingly nuanced picture of the manner in which regional cooperation proceeds as new arrangements, which range from health and education to employment and migration, take place (see inter alia Bianculli and Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016b, Riggirozzi and Yeates, 2015).…”

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“…Less emphasis has been given to how regional regulation across social policy areas works. These emerging regional regulations and arrangements are certainly critical and offer a rich vein for both social policy regionalism (Bianculli and Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016b) and comparative regionalism research. Among other things, cooperation beyond trade is not strictly an exclusive by-product of the political shift to the Left, and such initiatives also display significant diversity in terms of the policy problems being addressed and the institutional mechanisms and policy instruments implemented.…”

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From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

Bianculli

2018

Global Social Policy

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Regional cooperation has been an enduring feature of Latin American politics for more than half a century. With the turn of the century, regional organizations moved beyond traditional free trade issues to embrace cooperation in broader social policy areas. A recent literature relates this change to the left turn in the region, especially in South America. Yet, in practice, relevant differences persist in terms of how social policy is regulated at the regional level. This article looks precisely into this variation. In essence, it studies regulatory cooperation in the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) and thus offers a comparative assessment of the institutions and policy instruments devised in two social areas: education and health. Using an original dataset on the documents passed by MERCOSUR between 1991 and 2016, the findings provide evidence that the definition of the policy problem matters as this affects the institutional mechanisms and the policy instruments and strategies devised to address them. In this context, different policy problem definitions seem to account for two distinct emerging patterns of social regulatory cooperation in the Southern Cone.

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Section: What Do We Know About Regional Cooperation and Social Policimentioning

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From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

Bianculli

2018

Global Social Policy

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“…Consecuentemente, su estudio ha recaído en el ámbito de la política (doméstica) comparada o de los estudios globales (Kennett, 2013;Surender y Walker, 2013;Van der Vleuten, 2016). Más recientemente, sin embargo, y de manera algo modesta aún, la regulación social ha comenzado a ser estudiada a nivel regional en la medida en que la región surge como un espacio relevante para gestionar los desafíos y la incertidumbre asociados a los procesos de globalización económica y social (Bianculli y Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016;Deacon, Van Langenhove et al, 2010;Riggirozzi y Yeates, 2015). Mientras que el caso de la Unión Europea ha sido explorado de manera exhaustiva, otras regiones y organizaciones regionales han recibido menor atención.…”

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“…Más recientemente, sin embargo, y de manera algo modesta aún, las políticas y regulaciones en el área social han comenzado a ser analizadas desde una perspectiva regional. De esta manera, la región aparece como un espacio relevante para gestionar los desafíos y la incertidumbre asociados a los procesos de globalización tanto económica como social (Bianculli y Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016;Deacon, Van Langenhove et al, 2010;Riggirozzi y Yeates, 2015). Mientras que el caso de la Unión Europea (UE) ha sido explorado de manera exhaustiva, otras regiones y organizaciones regionales han recibido menor atención.…”

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Regionalismo e integración regional en América Latina

Bianculli¹

2021

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Las políticas y regulaciones sociales han sido tradicionalmente abordadas a nivel doméstico y global. Consecuentemente, su estudio ha recaído en el ámbito de la política (doméstica) comparada o de los estudios globales (Kennett, 2013; Surender y Walker, 2013; Van der Vleuten, 2016). Más recientemente, sin embargo, y de manera algo modesta aún, la regulación social ha comenzado a ser estudiada a nivel regional en la medida en que la región surge como un espacio relevante para gestionar los desafíos y la incertidumbre asociados a los procesos de globalización económica y social (Bianculli y Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016; Deacon, Van Langenhove et al., 2010; Riggirozzi y Yeates, 2015). Mientras que el caso de la Unión Europea ha sido explorado de manera exhaustiva, otras regiones y organizaciones regionales han recibido menor atención. Esto resulta especialmente sorprendente en el caso de América Latina, donde existe una larga historia y tradición de cooperación regional no solo a nivel comercial sino también en otras áreas, que incluyen salud, derechos humanos, no-intervención, y armas nucleares, entre otras (Petersen y Schulz, 2018). Este trabajo busca analizar de qué manera ha ido avanzando la regulación regional social en América Latina. A tal fin, se analiza el caso del Mercosur (Mercado Común del Sur). El análisis muestra que aun en un contexto de regionalismo abierto o nuevo regionalismo, donde el foco era la liberalización comercial, ya en los años noventa del siglo XX, Mercosur inicia un proceso regional de regulación en dos áreas de política social: educación y salud. Con el tiempo, estas dos áreas, aunque estables, han ido manifestando diferentes patrones de regulación social. Los hallazgos hablan entonces de la necesidad de avanzar en estudios más amplios que nos permitan captar continuidades en los procesos regionales, así como las posibles variaciones entre áreas de política aun dentro de una misma organización regional, donde la toma de decisiones presenta un fuerte carácter intergubernamental. Finalmente, y desde un punto de vista aplicado, muestra la necesidad de articular aún más lo regional como meso nivel entre lo nacional y lo global para dar respuestas eficaces a los problemas transfronterizos.

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Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa

Barlow,

Grugel,

Saka

et al. 2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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How do we account for the ability or otherwise of regional organisations in the global South to enable equitable and inclusive responses to the COVID-19 pandemic? We answer this question with a focus on Africa and in relation to the rights of women and girls. Drawing on theoretical insights from Feminist Global Health Security and from data on the African Union, other regional organisations in Africa and from non-governmental organisations, local activists and medical centres, we show that regional organisations acted quickly to identify the gendered socio-economic and health needs of women and girls and alerted member states to their responsibility to consider gender rights in their policy responses. But weak gender norms led to a disconnect between this early recognition of the importance of policies to protect women and girls and the behaviour of regional organisations, which could not lead a gender sensitive response or engineer one in member state governments.

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Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective

Cited by 4 publications

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From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

Regionalismo e integración regional en América Latina

Failing women and girls during Covid-19: The limits of regional gender norms in Africa

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