Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion : : Social Sector Reform in Latin America /

Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion : : Social Sector Reform in Latin America / / Kurt Weyland.

Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Weyland, Kurt,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 2 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Policy Diffusion
  • Chapter 2. Toward a New Theory of Policy Diffusion
  • Chapter 3. External Pressures and International Norms in Pension Reform
  • Chapter 4. Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Pension Reform
  • Chapter 5. External Pressures and International Norms in Health Reform
  • Chapter 6. Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Health Reform
  • Chapter 7. Bounded Rationality in the Era of Globalization
  • References and Interviews
  • Index

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