Stuck between the past and the future: Conditional cash transfer programme development and policy feedbacks in Brazil and Argentina

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    Abstract

    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)144-167
    Number of pages24
    JournalGlobal Social Policy
    Volume13
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2013

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