Paradiplomacy as an Instrument of Policy Change: A Case of Brazilian States during the COVID-19 Pandemic ()
ABSTRACT
The present article presents the study of the
phenomenon of paradiplomacy as a vector for
change in public policies, taking the paradiplomatic performance of Brazilian subnational units and their policies
to combat the COVID-19 pandemic as an example. The theoretical approach is the political sociology of
public action and its three basic principles for understanding public policy:
the sectoral-global relationship, the reference, and the interaction dynamics
between the actors involved. COVID-19 presented several problems for constructing public policies that could combat the
spread of the virus and its effects. Different federal entities took
divergent actions for this task. Divergent actions led to a conflict between
the federal government’s indecision and the protagonism of some subnational
units.
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Fronzaglia, M. (2023) Paradiplomacy as an Instrument of Policy Change: A Case of Brazilian States during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Open Journal of Political Science,
13, 512-521. doi:
10.4236/ojps.2023.134030.
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