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Ideology and social networks: The politics of social policy diffusion in Brazil.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ideology and social networks: The politics of social policy diffusion in Brazil./
Author:	Sugiyama, Natasha Borges.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Kurt Weyland; Wendy Hunter.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3277670
ISBN:	9780549172796

Ideology and social networks: The politics of social policy diffusion in Brazil.
Sugiyama, Natasha Borges.

Ideology and social networks: The politics of social policy diffusion in Brazil. - 268 p.

Advisers: Kurt Weyland; Wendy Hunter.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2007.

This dissertation examines the politics of local social policy making following Brazil's re-democratization. Decentralization in Brazil granted municipalities responsibility to design and tailor social policies to meet local demands. Yet instead of developing their own programs many governments chose to adopt those made famous elsewhere. What accounts for the diffusion of innovations across Brazil? This dissertation tests three approaches for understanding policy makers' emulation decisions: political incentives, ideology, and socialized norms. Each of these three motivations reflects a different paradigmatic response to the question, what drives political behavior? A conventional political incentives approach follows a rational choice framework that incorporates neoclassical behavioral assumptions and posits people will behave strategically to further their own self-interest. The classic assumption in this vein is that politicians will seek to win re-election. On the other hand, scholars who adopt an ideational approach examine the way people make choices because of their ideological convictions. Rather than seek their own political self-interest, actors can make decisions in spite of themselves or others because of deeply held beliefs about what is right and how to enact social change. Lastly, a sociological approach examines how individuals conform to shared norms and seek legitimacy in the eyes of their colleagues.

ISBN: 9780549172796Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Ideology and social networks: The politics of social policy diffusion in Brazil.
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