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The Role of Professionals in Policy Reform: Cases from the City Level, São Paulo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Monika Dowbor  and
Peter P. Houtzager
Monika Dowbor
Affiliation:
Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (CEM), São Paulo. mdowbor@gmail.com
Peter P. Houtzager
Affiliation:
Institute of Development Studies. p.houtzager@ids.ac.uk
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Abstract

A new generation of social policies in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America are being read by scholars as first and foremost the result of top-down initiatives by state elites and technocrats. This article explores what role, if any, middle-class professionals have played and how this role might be framed in analytical terms. The article examines the trajectory of two of the most important new social programs that target the poor in the city of São Paulo, Brazil: the family health program PSF and Renda Mínima. It compares the city-level reform dynamics that have shaped the trajectory of the programs over 18 years. It finds that networks of reformist middle-class professionals that traverse public and private institutions played a substantial role in the creation and evolution of the new programs.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , Fall 2014 , pp. 141 - 162
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Copyright © University of Miami 2014

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