Handbook of Public Policy in Latin America

Edited by Leonardo Secchi, Professor of Public Policy, Department of Public Administration, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil and Cesar N. Cruz-Rubio, Policy Researcher, GIGAPP, and Professor, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

• ContentsForeword by Luis F. Aguilar-Villanueva xxiiiAcknowledgments xxx1 Introduction to Public Policy in Latin America 1Leonardo Secchi and César N. Cruz-RubioPART I ANALYTICAL THEORETICAL2 Multiple streams framework in Latin America 13Ana Cláudia Niedhardt Capella3 The Institutional Analysis and Development framework: theoreticaldevelopments and empirical cases in Latin America 27Raúl Pacheco-Vega and Miguel Eduardo Alva-Rivera4 Two decades of uses and applications of the Advocacy CoalitionFramework to study the policy process in Latin America: what have welearned? 47Paúl Cisneros5 The Punctuated Equilibrium Theory in Latin America 73Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Felipe Gonçalves Brasil and Beatriz Policicio Rey6 The argumentative turn in policy analysis: tracking its development inLatin America 86Leonardo Secchi, Frank Fischer and Sulivan Desirée Fischer7 Critical policy studies in Latin America 103Rosana de Freitas Boullosa8 Evolution of the narrative approach to public policy in Latin America: thecases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (1990–2022) 119Alejandro Miguel Estévez and Marcela H. Cifarelli9 Latin America and policy transfer, diffusion, and circulation 143Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Cecilia Osorio Gonnet and Raúl Pacheco-Vega10 Movement, irreversibility, and instability: elements for rethinking thefunctioning of government and public policy 159Pedro Medellín Torres11 The Coalitions of Future Temporalities (CFT) Framework: a route oftheoretical hybridization for glocal policies 171Martha Isabel Gómez Lee12 Latin American developments in public policy theory 187André-Noël Roth-DeubelPART II CROSS COUNTRY13 Is it rational? The rationalist approach in the design of health policies inBrazil, Colombia, and Mexico 202Laura Flamand and Ana Paulina González Arroyo14 Transparency in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico 224Marco Antonio Carvalho Teixeira, Robson Zuccolotto, Mario ViníciusClaussen Spinelli and Rayane Vieira Rodrigues15 Citizen participation in the policy cycle in Latin America 243Thamy Pogrebinschi and Melisa Ross16 Subnational development, state capacities, and policy implementation: acomparative analysis of Brazil, Chile, and Colombia 257José A. Hernández-Bonivento, Eduardo José Grin and Camilo Vial Cossani17 Evaluation from and for Latin America: key elements for a culturallyresponsive evaluation approach proposal adapted to the regional reality 285Celeste Ghiano18 Regulation and public policy in Latin America: regional experience andcontemporary challenges 297Bruno Queiroz Cunha19 Towards a design of gender-transformative care systems in Latin America:Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay 310Alejandra Benítez Silva and Tatiana Revilla-Solís20 Teaching policy in Latin America: an overview 326Fernando de Souza Coelho and Bruno Dias Magalhães21 Communication policy in Latin America 341Palmira Chavero, Werner Vásquez von Schoettler and Isabel Ramos22 Critical theory in public policy and anti-corruption strategies in LatinAmerica: unveiling the limitations (and hypocrisy?) of the dominant anticorruption discourse 354David Arellano-Gault, Gabriel Rojas-Salazar and Luis Roberto23 Design and implementation of open government policies and strategies inLatin America (2012–2022) 370Álvaro V. Ramírez-Alujas and César Nicandro Cruz-Rubio24 Public sector innovation labs in Latin America: grasping their maturitylevel 385Cristina Galíndez Hernández and Hironobu Sano25 Artificial intelligence in Latin America’s public policy cycles 403Juan David Gutiérrez and Sarah Muñoz-Cadena26 Problem definition in the agenda setting process for the decriminalizationof abortion in Central America 421Jeraldine Alicia del Cid Castro and Gloria del Castillo AlemánPART III COUNTRY AND CASE STUDIES27 Public policy-making process in Argentina 439Diego Pando28 A critical analysis of public policies in Bolivia 455Mauricio Alzérreca Medrano29 Public policies in the building of independent Brazil: a historicalperspective 467Frederico Lustosa da Costa30 Public policy in Chile 481Bernardo Navarrete Yáñez31 Public policy in Colombia 504Juan Guillermo Vieira Silva, Santiago Leyva Botero and PabloSanabria-Pulido32 Politics and public policy in Guatemala 521Jeraldine Alicia del Cid Castro33 Public policy in Mexico: tensions at the center of government 537Ernesto Velasco Sánchez34 Public policies in Peru: a historical background 553Luis Solari de la Fuente and Mariano Solari Moscoso35 Policymaking at the world’s eco-laboratory: contradictions in Costa Ricanenvironmental policy 567Alonso Ramírez Cover and Tania Rodríguez Echavarría36 Human rights and public policies in Ecuador: between centrality and the“thorn in the side” 582Efrén Ernesto Guerrero Salgado37 Higher education policy in Venezuela: the transition from a participatoryto an exclusionary model 598José Rafael Mendoza Márquez38 Public policy in the Dominican Republic in light of the NationalDevelopment Strategy 2012–2030 612Gregorio Montero MonteroPART IV CONCLUSIONS39 Challenges and perspectives for public policy in Latin America 625César N. Cruz-Rubio, Leonardo Secchi, Nicolás Bentancur, AndréNoël Roth-Deubel and Juan Guillermo Vieira Silva

‘A marvelous compilation of chapters on how various theoretical frameworks have been adapted and expanded for the Latin American context. Along the way we get windows into numerous policy areas in specific countries. This Handbook is an intriguing reference work for scholars of Latin America and of public policy generally.’