Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies

In the past decade, Brazil became a model for social policies, ‘exporting’ ideas and techniques to tackle issues on social participation, poverty and hunger mostly to Southern countries, but also to the Northern States. International policy diffusion is immersed in a complex web of relations establi...

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Main Author: Osmany Porto de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Policy & Society
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1643646
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spelling doaj-451b3eb17bb5471cbcd93729437c043d2020-11-25T03:13:33ZengTaylor & Francis GroupPolicy & Society1449-40351839-33732020-01-01391536910.1080/14494035.2019.16436461643646Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policiesOsmany Porto de Oliveira0Federal University of São PauloIn the past decade, Brazil became a model for social policies, ‘exporting’ ideas and techniques to tackle issues on social participation, poverty and hunger mostly to Southern countries, but also to the Northern States. International policy diffusion is immersed in a complex web of relations established among a plethora of actors participating in various moments and spaces. How policies become models for exporting? Why Brazil was elected as a showcase for social policies? Which actors were engaged in this process? The literature presents different arguments that focus on international organizations, think-tanks, epistemic communities, private agents, networks and so on to explain how policy models travel from a place to another. In this study, the action of exporting elites and their circulation between various institutions are put under analysis to understand diffusion. We introduce in this article a new concept of ‘Policy Ambassador’, a transnational transfer agent, to explain the diffusion of Brazilian social policy ideas and instruments in the areas of participatory democracy, fight against poverty and hunger eradication.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1643646policy diffusiondevelopment cooperationsocial policybrazil
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Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
Policy & Society
policy diffusion
development cooperation
social policy
brazil
author_facet Osmany Porto de Oliveira
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title Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
title_short Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
title_full Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
title_fullStr Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
title_full_unstemmed Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
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publisher Taylor & Francis Group
series Policy & Society
issn 1449-4035
1839-3373
publishDate 2020-01-01
description In the past decade, Brazil became a model for social policies, ‘exporting’ ideas and techniques to tackle issues on social participation, poverty and hunger mostly to Southern countries, but also to the Northern States. International policy diffusion is immersed in a complex web of relations established among a plethora of actors participating in various moments and spaces. How policies become models for exporting? Why Brazil was elected as a showcase for social policies? Which actors were engaged in this process? The literature presents different arguments that focus on international organizations, think-tanks, epistemic communities, private agents, networks and so on to explain how policy models travel from a place to another. In this study, the action of exporting elites and their circulation between various institutions are put under analysis to understand diffusion. We introduce in this article a new concept of ‘Policy Ambassador’, a transnational transfer agent, to explain the diffusion of Brazilian social policy ideas and instruments in the areas of participatory democracy, fight against poverty and hunger eradication.
topic policy diffusion
development cooperation
social policy
brazil
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2019.1643646
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