Conditional cash transfer programs in Ecuador and Chile : the role of policy diffusion /: the role of policy diffusion. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: ¿Aprendiendo o emulando?: cómo se difunden las políticas sociales en América Latina
• Further Information: Note: Cecilia Osorio Gonnet.
• Authors: Osorio Gonnet, Cecilia
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Social Policies and Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCTs) in Latin America 2.1 Conditional Cash Transfer Programs 2.2 The social policy context of the 1990s 2.3 CCTs in Latin America a. Characteristics of the CCTs b. The emblematic cases of CCTs in the region: Brazil and Mexico c. CCT Assessments and Challenges 2.4. The debate about the diffusion of the programs Chapter 3. Mechanisms and actors in the diffusion of policies. State of the issue and theoretical proposal 3.1. The Policy Diffusion Approach a. Diffusion mechanisms 3.2. Discussion on the approach and study proposal Chapter 4. Quantitative Analysis of the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America 4.1 The wave of diffusion of the Conditional Cash Transfer Programs a. The wave of diffusion of the CCTs b. The diffusion of the CCT model and its behavior over time b.1. The essential characteristics b.2. Behavior over time of secondary and additional components 4.2. Statistical models and their contribution to research hypotheses a. Period analyzed and time variables b. Analysis unit c. Dependent variable d. Independent variables d.1. Domestic independent variables d.2. External independent variables e. Presentation of the models 4.3 Analysis of results Chapter 5. The Epistemic Community and International Organizations in the Diffusion of CCTs 5.1. The epistemic community and the role of banks during the first years of the wave of diffusion 5.2. The epistemic community from 2000 5.3. The epistemic community and other international organizations 5.4. Final comments Chapter 6. Chile. The Chile Solidario program 6.1. The context in which the Chile Solidario program emerged 6.2. The process of adopting the Chile Solidario program 6.3. The learning diffusion mechanism Chapter 7. Ecuador, the Human Development Bond 7.1. The economic and political context 7.2. The process of adoption of the Bono Desarrollo Humano and its stakeholders a. 1998- 2003: The Bono Solidario b. The inclusion of conditionalities: The transition from Bono Solidario to Bono Desarrollo Humano c. The Bono Desarrollo Humano and the social protection 7.3. Diffusion mechanisms: moderate coercion and emulation Chapter 8. Conclusions 8.1. Discussion about the hypotheses a. "The most suitable alternative." The consensus after the adoption of the CCTs b. Diffusion through various mechanisms: learning, emulation and moderate coercion c. National institutional capacities and their linkage to diffusion mechanisms 8.2. Considerations regarding the approach and methodology adopted 8.3. Remaining issues and future challenges.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.91098; Transfer payments -- Ecuador; Transfer payments -- Chile; Economic assistance, Domestic -- Latin America; Poverty -- Government policy -- Ecuador; Poverty -- Government policy -- Chile
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030510084
• Related ISBNs: 9783030510077
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