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3. The Rise and Fall of Brazil as a “Policy Exporter”: From Lula Da Silva to Jair Bolsonaro

Authors : Laura Trajber Waisbich, Juliana Ramos Luiz, Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria

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Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Brazil emerged in the early 2000s as an important “Southern hub” in the new geographies of global policy circulation. The chapter analyses the rise and fall of Brazil as a “policy exporter” between 2003 and 2022. It unpacks the motives behind Brazilian state active promotion of a key set of development-related policies to other countries during this time and the shifting policy configurations that first enabled then constrained the country to play this role. Looking at almost two decades of circulation of Brazil-grown policy solutions through the combined lenses of foreign policy analysis and policy diffusion, the chapter contributes to understanding the actors, mechanisms and dynamics of change and continuity behind a major contemporary Southern policy innovation hub.

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Title: The Rise and Fall of Brazil as a “Policy Exporter”: From Lula Da Silva to Jair Bolsonaro
Authors: Laura Trajber Waisbich
Juliana Ramos Luiz
Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Brazil and China in Knowledge and Policy Transfer
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-09115-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-09116-2

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09116-2_3