Regional Governance and Policy-Making in South America

This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research. Using the UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) as a case study, the author investigates the process of policy-making in regional public policy fields in South America. The project focuses on intergovernmental structures of regional organizations as an institutional framework for a variety of independent processes in regions. It also challenges the perspective of democratic states as unitary actors and seeks to analyze the factors which favor or obstruct regional processes in different policy-fields. This work will appeal to researchers, graduate students and anyone interested in Latin American politics and policy-making.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Regional Governance in South America.- 2. Chapter 2: Public Policies in Regional Integration Theory.- 3. Chapter 3: Policy Studies and Regional Public Policy-Making.- 4. Chapter 4: The Case of UNASUR.- 5. Chapter 5: Regional Organizations in South America.- 6. Chapter 6: Regional Public Policy-Making in Sectoral Councils.- 7. Chapter 7: Policy-Making in UNASUR Councils - Comparative Analysis.- 8. Conclusion: Regional Governance in South America

About the author

Anne Marie Hoffmann is Deputy Head at Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainability and Climate Change Management" in Hamburg, Germany.

Summary

This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research. Using the UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) as a case study, the author investigates the process of policy-making in regional public policy fields in South America. The project focuses on intergovernmental structures of regional organizations as an institutional framework for a variety of independent processes in regions. It also challenges the perspective of democratic states as unitary actors and seeks to analyze the factors which favor or obstruct regional processes in different policy-fields. This work will appeal to researchers, graduate students and anyone interested in Latin American politics and policy-making.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Marie Hoffmann
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319980676
• ISBN: 978-3-31-998067-6
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 418 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 199 p. 4 illus.
• Series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America; Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Economic Policy, Political Science, Regional Development, Social Change, Political Science and International Studies, Public Administration, Public Policy, Economic development, Development policy, Development Studies, Development and Social Change, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics