Policy Seed Grant | 2003-2004
Policy Adoption and Effective Enforcement in Latin America
by Maria Victoria Murillo (Political Science)
This project seeks to answer whether institutions with the same name and goals have the same expected effects in different contexts by looking at policymaking in Latin America to establish patterns of variation regarding both policy adoption and effective enforcement in areas of institutional isomorphism. To answer this question this project will pursue two different paths. First, by gathering data on the establishment of various policies in electricity and telecoms across all Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America, it will assess the effect of diverse cross-sectoral and cross-country hypotheses on policy adoption. Second, by researching on secondary sources about research tools on institutional enforcement, it will develop comparative measures of regulatory enforcement. The initial hypotheses about policy adoption and measures of institutional enforcement will be used later in a broader study comparing regulatory adoption and enforcement in telecoms and electricity with social and labor regulations in the region.
See Also
- Working paper: Political Competition and Policy Adoption: Market Reforms in Latin American Public Utilities
