International policy circulation and fields of public policy in the (Latin American) periphery

Abstract

After a discussion of public policy studies on policy transfer and of sociological approaches to inter-relations among national political, I advance a historically and institutionally sensitive field-sociology of policy circulation that coherently integrates those insights and propose analyzing policy circulation through the concepts of informal empire social spaces, national policy fields, international policy strategies and international organizations as-fields. In the empirical moment, I refer to my studies on criminal justice policies in Argentina and Chile to show how those concepts allow dissecting the transnational dynamics of policymaking in the (Latin American) global periphery.