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9780691134710
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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 reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have privatized their social security systems, including Bolivia and El Salvador, lack some of the preconditions necessary to do so successfully. In a major step beyond conventional rational-choice accoun
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Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Puzzle of Policy Diffusion; Chapter 2 Toward a New Theory of Policy Diffusion; Chapter 3 External Pressures and International Norms in Pension Reform; Chapter 4 Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Pension Reform; Chapter 5 External Pressures and International Norms in Health Reform; Chapter 6 Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Health Reform; Chapter 7 Bounded Rationality in the Era of Globalization; References and Interviews; Index;
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ISBN 9781400828067
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ISBN 9780691134710
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion : Social Sector Reform in Latin America
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Englisch
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