Issue Area and Pluralization In Brazilian Foreign Policy
An Exploratory Study of Decision-Making Processes in the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9684402 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Egon Maitino (0000-0001-9254-2816, Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dados (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5258 • E-ISSN: 1678-4588 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/dados.2024.67.4.336 |
| OpenAlex | W4390107173 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0011-52582024000400203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The idea of ‘pluralization’—a new configuration of decision-making processes, characterized by Itamaraty’s relative loss of influence and the participation of various actors—became widespread in Brazilian foreign policy studies. Questioning the literature’s general framing of this transformation, we explore the hypothesis that pluralization varies depending on the issue area under analysis. We build upon a mechanism connecting domestic distributive effects to pluralization and apply process-tracing methods to analyze two “typical cases” associated with environmental and health issues: the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and the dispute on AIDS drug patents. We explore how issue areas interact with mechanisms affecting decision-unit dispersion and generate hypotheses to explain deviations from the model. The results contribute to discussing issue-area effects, a gap in the literature. Conceptualizing issue areas as subsystems, we identify relevant dimensions to think their relation to pluralization: technical knowledge, distribution and weight of power capabilities, expert communities, institutionalization, and past interactions within the subsystem
Distributive property · Economics · Framing (construction · Geography · Institutionalisation · Negotiation · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Process-Tracing Methods
Interests, Institutions, and Information
The Policy-Making Capacity of Foreign Ministries in Presidential Regimes
Participation and Influence
The Politics of Brazilian Foreign Policy and Its Analytical Challenges
Genesis of the CDM
Consolidating the Gains Made in Diplomacy Studies
How Decision Units Shape Foreign Policy
Rupturas e continuidades no padrão organizacional e decisório do Ministério das Relações Exteriores
Politicising financial foreign policy
Alianças e coalizões internacionais do governo Lula
Foreign Ministries in the European Union
Are Bureaucracies Important? (Or Allison Wonderland)
Sustentabilidade da política de acesso a medicamentos anti-retrovirais no Brasil
Theories of the Policy Process
Developing a Systematic Decision-Making Framework
Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty
Burst Diplomacy The Diplomacies of Foreign Policy
Regulatory Performance and Presidential Administration
Ideas, Bureaucratic Politics, and the Crafting of Foreign Policy
O Itamaraty e a política externa brasileira
Política externa brasileira
Foreign Ministries
Coordenação intragovernamental para a implementação da política externa brasileira
Rethinking Allison's Models
Traversing Boundaries
Política e burocracia no presidencialismo brasileiro
O regime internacional de mudança climática e o Brasil
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |