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| Author(s): |
Marques, Eduardo Cesar Leao
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS; v. 45, n. 4, p. 20-pg., 2021-03-15. |
| Abstract | |
Why do local governments produce redistributive urban policies, particularly in cities of the Global South? Present debates oscillate between highlighting these cities' governmental problems or sustaining the enabling role of institutionalized social participation. From the standpoint of Sao Paulo, Brazil, this article shows a different picture. The trajectories of 27 redistributive urban programs follow a conflictive and incremental expansion and diversification of redistributive policies through time. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) techniques indicate that program creation usually happened in left-wing administrations. Most of them were maintained after government swings, although at lower pace, due mainly to the pressure of political competition, but also on account of multi-level politics and policy routinization. Even previously discontinued programs tended to reemerge later, due to the embeddedness of civil society actors in policy communities and multi-level politics. Therefore, trajectories were explained by a combination of partisan politics and median voter mechanisms with policy production processes and actors. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/07616-7 - CEM - Center for Metropolitan Studies |
| Grantee: | Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers - RIDC |