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Policy Transfer and Instrument Constituency: Explaining the Adoption of Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines

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  • Kidjie Saguin
  • Michael Howlett

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Transnational policy transfer is a well‐documented phenomenon with studies from across many disciplines. However, the literature tends to over‐theorize but under‐operationalize what is transferred and how it is transferred. A significant issue in this regard concerns ‘agency’: that is, who is supplying and who is demanding policy lessons and examples. This paper highlights a relatively new concept in comparative policy studies, that of the ‘instrument constituency’, within the framework of transnational policymaking. It argues that instrument constituencies or groups of actors unified by their strong affinity with a specific policy tool are key agents in the transfer process, acting as suppliers and brokers of policy ideas, constantly searching to match their preferred solutions to policy problems. As this paper will show, incorporating such constituencies into policy transfer studies allows a better understanding of transfer as part of a sequential process of diffusion, and how knowledge about a policy instrument is assembled and transferred.

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  • Kidjie Saguin & Michael Howlett, 2019. "Policy Transfer and Instrument Constituency: Explaining the Adoption of Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines," Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 6(3), pages 352-366, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:asiaps:v:6:y:2019:i:3:p:352-366
    DOI: 10.1002/app5.280
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    1. Laura Trajber Waisbich, 2024. "Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 57(1), pages 145-169, March.

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