Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America

by Kurt Weyland

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134715
• ISBN13: 9780691134710
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"