"Where do new policy ideas come from? In this important book, Kurt
Weyland provides an answer that satisfies both theory and practice;
his findings cross disciplinary boundaries with aplomb, insight,
and superb analysis of policy decision-making."--Merilee S.
Grindle, Harvard University
"This is a very innovative and fruitful work that accounts
better than other approaches for the crucial economic policy
decisions studied by Weyland."--Guillermo O'Donnell, University of
Notre Dame
"This book contains a highly innovative perspective for
understanding how policymaking takes place in Latin America. The
use of models of bounded rationality, applied to a remarkably vast
base of empirical information, provides provocative insights into
how particular policies are adopted and how the real elements of
rationality that intervene in such adoption are constrained by a
series of cognitive factors. This work should become a source of
reflection for both national policymakers and the staff of
international organizations."--Juan Carlos Navarro, Inter-American
Development Bank
"This outstanding book will have a major impact on comparative
politics, since it provides a comprehensive defense of the bounded
rationality perspective and applies it carefully to explain
patterns in the diffusion of pension and health reform in Latin
America."--Mitchell Orenstein, Syracuse University
"Well organized and well written, this book makes two broad
contributions to our understanding of the diffusion of social
sector policies, and more generally to the comparative politics of
public policy. First, in a valuable commentary on previous
research, it demonstrates convincingly that some of the theories
andgeneralizations in the literature are frequently overstated.
Second, and quite originally, it offers an alternative conception
of the process of policy choice."--Joan M. Nelson, Princeton
University
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