Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America

Download or read book Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America written by Melina Rocha Lukic and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers together papers that present research on public policies in Latin America, all of which adopt a cognitive approach. This theoretical framework is based on the analysis of public policy from a cognitive and normative perspective; more specifically, through the concepts of paradigm, frame of reference and advocacy coalition. In this sense, the main questions posed here are: what paradigms have Latin American public policies followed lately? How have the paradigms responded to ...