TY - JOUR
T1 - Stuck between the past and the future
T2 - Conditional cash transfer programme development and policy feedbacks in Brazil and Argentina
AU - Fenwick, Tracy Beck
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - Do policy feedbacks interact with transnational policy ideas? How do they impact domestic policy development? Using a qualitative research method based on a comparison of two poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, this article asserts that in all likelihood, if a previously implemented policy initiative was 'locked-in' through domestic policy experimentation and resultant state-building and interest group policy effects, it will not easily be replaced by alternative, transnational policy ideas that appear on the radar screen of national policymakers at a later date. However, if transnational policy ideas and models can draw on or build upon already established ideational and symbolic beliefs, they can actually be used to further the motivations of key political actors and societal interests - here, diffusion opens up great reform opportunities and opens the door to further policy institutionalization.
AB - Do policy feedbacks interact with transnational policy ideas? How do they impact domestic policy development? Using a qualitative research method based on a comparison of two poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, this article asserts that in all likelihood, if a previously implemented policy initiative was 'locked-in' through domestic policy experimentation and resultant state-building and interest group policy effects, it will not easily be replaced by alternative, transnational policy ideas that appear on the radar screen of national policymakers at a later date. However, if transnational policy ideas and models can draw on or build upon already established ideational and symbolic beliefs, they can actually be used to further the motivations of key political actors and societal interests - here, diffusion opens up great reform opportunities and opens the door to further policy institutionalization.
KW - Argentina
KW - Brazil
KW - conditional cash transfer programmes
KW - policy diffusion
KW - policy feedbacks
KW - transnational policy domains
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881021609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1468018113484610
DO - 10.1177/1468018113484610
M3 - Article
SN - 1468-0181
VL - 13
SP - 144
EP - 167
JO - Global Social Policy
JF - Global Social Policy
IS - 2
ER -