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Devereux, Stephen |
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| dc.creator |
Wolkenhauer, Anna |
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| dc.date |
2021-12-13T12:01:46Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-12-13T12:01:46Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-12-13 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-26T08:50:50Z |
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2022-05-26T08:50:50Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Devereux, S. and Wolkenhauer, A. (2021) Agents, Coercive Learning, and Social Protection Policy Diffusion in Africa, IDS Working Paper 559, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2021.068 |
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| dc.identifier |
978-1-78118-900-9 |
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| dc.identifier |
2040-0209 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17000 |
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| dc.identifier |
Rural Futures |
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| dc.identifier |
10.19088/IDS.2021.068 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198802 |
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| dc.description |
This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of cash transfers by African governments, at the intersection between learning and coercion, which we term ‘coercive learning’, to draw attention to the important role played by TA-commissioned policy drafting, evidence generation, advocacy, and capacity-building activities. Next, we argue for making individual agents central in the analysis of policy diffusion, because of their ability to reflect, learn, and interpret policy ideas. We substantiate this claim theoretically by drawing on practice theories, and empirically by telling the story of social protection policy diffusion in Zambia through three individual agents. This is complemented by two instances of self-reflexivity in which the authors draw on their personal engagements in the policy process in Zambia, to refine our conclusions about the interplay of structure and agency. |
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| dc.description |
SOCIUM Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany |
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| dc.description |
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Institute of Development Studies |
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| dc.relation |
IDS Working Paper;559 |
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| dc.relation |
CSP Working Paper;019 |
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| dc.rights |
This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. |
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| dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| dc.rights |
Institute of Development Studies |
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| dc.subject |
Politics and Power |
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| dc.subject |
Social Protection |
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| dc.title |
Agents, Coercive Learning, and Social Protection Policy Diffusion in Africa |
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| dc.type |
IDS Working Paper |
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