The role of policy transfer in Indonesian governance: the case of academic administrative entrepreneurs

Wicaksono, Ario

doi:10.1080/01442872.2018.1530335

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“…Other 'policy entrepreneurs' advocate policy lessons and target decision-making elites in political parties, government, development assistance agencies or in (transnational) policy communities with their solutions in the form of international standards or 'best practice'. 'Academic-administrator entrepreneurs' importing foreign policy ideas has been highlighted in the Indonesian case (Wicaksono, 2018). Policy entrepreneurs hold significant personal resources in their powers of persuasion.…”

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Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models

2019

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The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the circulation of policy and knowledge has become more dense and complex. The articles in the special issue concentrate on the growing velocity of policy innovations spreading from the developing world to other parts of the developing as well as into developed countries and towards international organisations. The context of international development cooperation has been particularly fertile in the cross-pollination of ideas, models and policy experiments, and the articles in this Special Issue draw deeply on this insight. Using a 'development lens' enables the authors to view processes of knowledge diffusion and policy transfer not from the centre, in the ministries of national governments, but from policy perimeters, in cities and local government, among those outside political power in opposition groups and movements, and bottom-up from policy implementers.

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2019

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“…The composition of key policymakers warrants further exploration as most of them have served as academics in public and private universities, demonstrating the dominance of academics in policy-making in Indonesia. Wicaksono (2018) presents a very useful guide that invites others to explore and research the role that academics-turned-senior bureaucrats play in Indonesian public affairs, and our research, as we argued, takes into account this trend by examining how they interact with binding political structures. Due to this reason, we should be cautious not to glorify the structuralism and power resources model because the significant impact they had on social policy development was limited to the Indonesian case.…”

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Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion

Yuda

Ashfina

2023

Social Policy and Society

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Established theories of social policy development, such as industrialisation and power resources, have been extensively used to explain the expansion of social policy, predominantly in developed economies. We argue that they may not always be applicable in the Global South. Our article examines multiple factors at play in Indonesia’s healthcare policy expansion using qualitative content analysis of historical sources, literature, and nine interviews with key policy architects. Using the pull-and-push factor model, we examined the interactions between policy entrepreneurs and centre-right political parties in creating national healthcare policy architecture and expansion. Our findings confirm that the window of opportunity for expansion was augmented when the political party of the ruling government experienced a decline in public trust, while clientelistic motives among elites facilitated the reform process. Drawing the lesson from Indonesia, we contend push prevails over the pull factors (labour movement and cross-class alliances) in social policy development.

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“…Nor did it result in a policy-making process free from corruption. But as part of “a wish to ‘catch up’ with the West,” the government sought to develop technical expertise and was supported by donors such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (Wicaksono 2018, 631).…”

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Benevolent Policies: Bureaucratic Politics and the International Dimensions of Social Policy Expansion

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Research on the welfare state has devoted considerable attention to social policy expansion. However, little is known about why governments expand social policies serving groups with limited power on issues with low visibility. I call these “benevolent policies.” This class of social policies improves population well-being but produces minimal political gains for the governments enacting them. Why do governments expand benevolent policies if political incentives for reform are weak? I investigate this question by focusing on government responses to malnutrition. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork, including 71 interviews, I argue that the origins of policy expansion can be found in the government bureaucracy. Bureaucrats with technical expertise—technocrats—can play a defining role, deploying international pressure to court executive support and orchestrate policy change. Their actions help explain the Indonesian government’s unexpected expansion of nutrition policies, which serve low-income women and children and address micronutrient malnutrition.

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The role of policy transfer in Indonesian governance: the case of academic administrative entrepreneurs

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models

Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models

Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion

Benevolent Policies: Bureaucratic Politics and the International Dimensions of Social Policy Expansion

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