Mobilising international embeddedness to resist radical policy change and dismantling: the case of Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022)

Laura Trajber Waisbich ()
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Laura Trajber Waisbich: University of Oxford, Latin American Centre, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Policy Sciences, 2024, vol. 57, issue 1, No 8, 145-169

Abstract: Abstract Unpacking the ‘crisis of democracy’ and what is means and does to policy processes is a new and ever-growing agenda. This paper uses the case of Brazil to examine bureaucratic responses, and attempted resistance, to democratic backsliding and policy dismantling in times of autocratisation, notably under Jair Bolsonaro (2019–2022). It does so by focusing on a less explored transnational lenses. It argues that the growing international embeddedness of Brazilian policies, including through policy transfer and technical cooperation initiatives mostly with other developing countries, has provided domestic sectoral bureaucracies and policy communities with additional strategic discursive and argumentative resources to mobilise, respond and try to resist policy dismantling at home.

Keywords: Policy dismantling; Democratic backsliding; Bureaucratic activism; Transnationalisation; South-South cooperation; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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