1st Edition

Policy Process Frameworks in Practice Critical Analysis from Brazil and Latin America

Edited By Natália Sátyro, André Marenco, Mariana Batista Copyright 2027
242 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Policy Process Frameworks in Practice  offers a fresh and critical look at the main frameworks used to study policy processes, with a unique focus on their application in Brazil and Latin America. Rather than simply presenting theories, it examines how these models are used in practice, highlighting both their strengths and their limits. By shifting attention to the Global South, the book... Read more

List of Contributors

 

Preface – A Mirror for Brazil, a Bridge to the World

Giliberto Capano

 

Chapter 1. Book Presentation - Who explains what, when, and how? A critical analysis of policy process frameworks 

André Marenco, Natália Sátyro e Mariana Batista

 

Chapter 2. Multiple Streams, Little Causal Explanation

André Marenco, Lidia Ten Cate e Marília Bruxel

 

Chapter 3. Advocacy Coalition Framework in Brazil: Development and Applications

Natália Sátyro, Henrique Campos de Oliveira e Ana Luiza Martins de Medeiros

 

Chapter 4. Nuts and Bolts of Punctuated Equilibrium: Theory, Methods, and Applications in Brazil

Mariana Batista, Anderson Henrique

 

Chapter 5. Just a Narrative of Narratives?

André Marenco

 

Chapter 6. Much stability, some change, and fewer mechanisms in historical institutionalism Eduardo Grin, Jaedson Gomes dos Santos e Cadmiel Mergulhão

 

Chapter 7. Policy Diffusion in Brazilian Federalism: Identifying Causal Mechanisms

Denilson Bandeira Coêlho

 

Chapter 8. What do we know about environmental policy in Latin America? A systematic review of topics, methods, and analytical framing of public policy processes

Elia Elisa Cia Alves, Nathaly Lohane de Oliveira, Andrea Quirino Steiner, Geórgia Moreira Ribeiro

 

Biography

Natália Sátyro  is Full Professor of Political Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil and vice-coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Government Quality and Policies for Sustainable Development (INCT-QualiGov). She is the Convener of International Political Science Association (IPSA, 2023–present) Research Committee on Welfare State and Developing Societies (RC39), coordinator of the Inter-institutional Centre for Policy Analyses (CIAPSoc-UFMG), and was the founder and the coordinator of Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP) Public Policy Research Group (GIPP, 2013–2024).

André Marenco is Full Professor at the Graduate Program in Public Policy of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and coordinator of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Government Quality and Policies for Sustainable Development (INCT-QualiGov). He completed a senior internship at the Institut d'Études Politiques–Sciences Po/Paris, was a full member of the Technical-Scientific Council for Higher Education, and the Political Science Area (CAPES) coordinator. His work focuses on comparative political institutions, political reform, bureaucracies and public policy.

Mariana Batista is Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard University and Oxford University. CNPQ productivity fellow. Member of INCT-QualiGov. Her main publications have appeared in theEuropean Journal of Political Research, Governance, Party Politics, Research and Politics, and the Journal of Politics in Latin America. Her areas of research are government composition and decision-making process, bureaucracy, state capacities, transparency and public integrity, and public policy evaluation.