Latin American countries have for a long time been importers of public policies and institutions from the Global North. The colonial legacy and resulting patter

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

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread wor

Since the return of democracy to Latin America, policies intended to promote the inclusion of women and other underrepresented groups have been increasingly ado

This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities w