The Southern Cone Model

Phillips, Nicola

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“…Firstly, there is particular scope for approaches that bring together historical techniques, notably the use of archival sources, to trace the development of a policy community within a conceptual framework provided by political science. The more general methodological point here is the need to deploy a ‘controlled eclecticism’ (Phillips 2004, 15) that is open to a range of methods whilst still adhering to criteria of parsimony, relevance and coherence. Secondly, the analysis of policy communities needs to pay greater attention to the need to identify ideas and policy frames that have become embedded in the policy community to the exclusion of other approaches.…”

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Bringing Policy Communities Back In: The Case of Fire Service Cover

Grant¹

2005

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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It is argued that the concept of a policy community has an enduring value in the analysis of public policy, especially if an emphasis is placed on the way in which ideas are excluded from debates. Historical analysis based on the National Archives using a political science conceptual framework can offer fresh perspectives. The concept is developed through a specification of the conditions that encourage policy community formation and survival. Policy inertia led to a policy that produced a higher rate of deaths from fire in the UK than in other developed countries, especially among the socially excluded. The policy community concept can be of value in the policy analysis tool-kit, especially if policy frames that have become embedded to the exclusion of alternatives are identified.

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Bringing Policy Communities Back In: The Case of Fire Service Cover

Grant¹

2005

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Both cyclical (Carlsnaes 1992;Rosati 1994) and loss-aversion (Welch 2005) models expect FPCh to occur when the economy is doing badly. An important body of literature has been devoted to explore how economic constraints provoked the realignment of Latin American countries' foreign policies as a way to access credit, investment, and even aid (Feinberg 2002;Phillips 2004;Grugel and Riggirozzi 2012). The implicit understanding of this literature is that countries in dire straits have to make substantial changes in their foreign policies if they want to get help from the markets or a more powerful country.…”

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Foreign Policy Change in Latin America: Exploring a Middle-Range Concept

Merke¹,

Reynoso²,

Schenoni

2020

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This article examines patterns of change and continuity in Latin American foreign policies. It asks two interrelated questions: How can we conceptually and empirically account for foreign policy change? And why do states change their foreign policies in Latin America? To answer these questions, we used the results of a new expert survey on foreign policy preferences in the region between 1980 and 2014. The results we obtained using both linear and nonparametric specifications are very clear and consistent: presidential ideology is what matters the most. Simply put, a change in the ideology of the president produces a change in foreign policy that is almost equivalent in magnitude, all other theoretically relevant factors set to their means. En este artículo, examinamos los patrones de cambio y continuidad en las políticas exteriores de América Latina. Lo hacemos planteando dos preguntas relacionadas: ¿Cómo podemos dar cuenta conceptual y empíricamente del cambio en la política exterior? ¿Por qué los estados en América Latina cambian su política exterior? Para contestar estas preguntas, utilizamos los resultados de una nueva encuesta a expertos sobre las preferencias de política exterior entre 1980 y 2014. Los resultados obtenidos utilizando especificaciones lineales y no-paramétricas son claros y consistentes: la ideología presidencial es lo que más importa. Puesto de manera simple, un cambio en la ideología del presidente produce un cambio en la política exterior que es casi equivalente en su magnitud, ajustando todos los demás factores teóricamente relevantes a sus promedios.

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“…In Latin America, RTAs regulate the international flow of people, goods, services, and capital. A distinctive feature of this region is that the ascent and diffusion of RTAs grew out of ISI, yet reflects the influence of neoliberalism (Phillips, 2004;Rosen, 2002). Countries aggressively sought to partner with neighbors and within the region as they opened to the global economy, yet also sought to protect favored domestic industries to satisfy domestic elites and key constituencies (Phillips, 2004).…”

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Stagnating Industrial Employment in Latin America

Brady

Kaya

Gereffi

2011

Work and Occupations

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The industrialization of developing countries has fundamentally transformed work, employment, and labor for millions. Despite the industrialization of most of the developing world, we present evidence that Latin America has experienced stagnating industrial employment in the past few decades. Benefiting from recently available data on industrial employment as a percentage of total employment from 1980 through 2006, we analyze fixed-effects models for 20 Latin American countries. Specifically, we examine three theoretical explanations: productivity/comparative advantage, institutionalism, and dependency/world-systems. Our analyses demonstrate that the prevailing productivity/comparative advantage explanation has limited value. By contrast, we find supportive evidence for a combination of institutional and dependency/world-systems variables. In particular, the stagnating industrial employment share in Latin American countries has been driven by the negative effects of (in order of magnitude) the Mercosur trade agreement, mineral and ore exports (as a percentage of total exports), the duration of the current political regime, military spending (as a percentage of GDP), and inward foreign direct investment flows (as a percentage of GDP).

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The Southern Cone Model

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Bringing Policy Communities Back In: The Case of Fire Service Cover

Bringing Policy Communities Back In: The Case of Fire Service Cover

Foreign Policy Change in Latin America: Exploring a Middle-Range Concept

Stagnating Industrial Employment in Latin America

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