Explaining the Adoption of Care Policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay
A Multiple Streams Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12426559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Leon‐Espinoza (0000-0002-2874-9166, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1379-1402 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxac030 |
| OpenAlex | W4295529974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article aims to reveal how Costa Rica and Uruguay succeeded in adopting integrated care policies. By adapting the classic “multiple streams approach,” I analyze the processes leading to the adoption of two care policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay. The findings suggest that the key to understanding the adoption of care policies lies within the interplay between agents and contexts in different streams. Problems can be constructed as a top-down process by a women’s agency or as a bottom-up process from a feminist organization. Solutions can be designed in close-knit policy networks of technocrats/bureaucrats or in open policy networks of bureaucrats and civil society organizations. Care policies become prominent items on government agendas in the presence of programmatic political parties and high electoral competition settings that prioritize the issue to attract voters or consolidate support. The alignment of problems, solutions, and politics identify different pathways that lead to the adoption of care policies
Agency (philosophy · Business · Civil society · Competition (biology · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Sociology · Technocracy · Gender Politics and Representation · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Public Administration
Women’s Policy Agencies and State Feminism
The Comparative Study of Women’s Movements
Order Without Design
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left
The Multiple Streams Framework
Case Study Research
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Post‐Industrial Pressures on the Mature Welfare States
Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America
Democracy and the Left
The adoption of care policies in Costa Rica
Actors and ideas behind CCTs in Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Determinants of a Silent (R)evolution
The Divergence in Women’s Economic Empowerment
Work, family and public policy changes in latin america
Expected struggles
Ideas and Social Policy
Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach
Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs
Socio-Economic Change, Party Competition and Intra-Party Conflict
Still Supermadres? Gender and the Policy Priorities of Latin American Legislators
Putting Two and Two Together? Early Childhood Education, Mothers' Employment and Care Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |