New Demands and Policies on Higher Education in the Mercosur: A Comparative Study on Challenges, Resources, and Trends

Larrechea, Enrique Martínez; Castro, Adriana Chiancone

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“…From a Latin American perspective, with the turn of the century, there has been a veritable explosion of scholarship on social policy provisions at the regional level. Analyses have empirically explored the governance of regional cooperation in issues like education (Botto, 2016; Gomes et al, 2012; Larrechea and Castro, 2009; Perrotta, 2016; Verger and Hermo, 2010), employment (Espino, 2016), health (Bianculli and Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016a; Herrero and Tussie, 2015; Riggirozzi, 2012), and migration (Margheritis, 2013). Collectively, this work has broadened our understandings of the actors, institutions, and processes underlying regional organizations’ involvement in social policies beyond the EU, and its impact on regulation and development.…”

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From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

Bianculli

2018

Global Social Policy

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Regional cooperation has been an enduring feature of Latin American politics for more than half a century. With the turn of the century, regional organizations moved beyond traditional free trade issues to embrace cooperation in broader social policy areas. A recent literature relates this change to the left turn in the region, especially in South America. Yet, in practice, relevant differences persist in terms of how social policy is regulated at the regional level. This article looks precisely into this variation. In essence, it studies regulatory cooperation in the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) and thus offers a comparative assessment of the institutions and policy instruments devised in two social areas: education and health. Using an original dataset on the documents passed by MERCOSUR between 1991 and 2016, the findings provide evidence that the definition of the policy problem matters as this affects the institutional mechanisms and the policy instruments and strategies devised to address them. In this context, different policy problem definitions seem to account for two distinct emerging patterns of social regulatory cooperation in the Southern Cone.

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From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

Bianculli

2018

Global Social Policy

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“…In Paraguay, the lack of substantial changes in higher education during the long dictatorial regime resulted, for the most part, in the absence of policy change and the exclusion of Paraguay from regional reforms in higher education. However, since the 1990s, Paraguay's higher education system, seemingly ready for change, has followed a common regional and global pattern of change characterised by rapid massification, institutional differentiation, growth of the private sector, emergence of new providers, institutional and legal innovations, as well as regional integration and internationalisation (Larrechea & Chiancone Castro, 2009). …”

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Traveling Policies: Mobility, Transformation and Continuities in Higher Education Public Policy

Brítez

2012

Policy Futures in Education

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This article presents an assessment of the impact and implications of the international mobilities operating in the national public policy environment. In fact, patterns of transformations that take place in national higher education systems are generating diverse and complex outcomes in different countries, in ways that may preclude a simple relation between international policy prescriptions and communication and policy change in higher education. In this way, the different processes that constitute globalisation within local spaces demand recognition of the importance of specificities in their constitution. In short, the starting point to understanding these processes seems to require detecting the specificity of complex dimensions in which the dynamic interaction between global and local takes place. In order to illustrate this point, the author presents the case of policy developments related to the dramatic private expansion of Paraguay's higher education sector since the 1990s.

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“…Regionalismo, política y regulación social en América Latina A partir de los primeros años de la década de 2000, surge un creciente interés en explorar cuáles son los desarrollos regulatorios a nivel regional en áreas de política que hasta entonces habían quedado mayormente excluidas de la literatura, como es el caso de las políticas sociales, que incluyen salud, educación, empleo, género e incluso migraciones, entre otras. Hasta entonces la articulación y promoción de políticas y regulaciones sociales en otras regiones del mundo, más allá de la experiencia de la UE, habían quedado relegadas.En el caso de América Latina, se produce una verdadera explosión de estudios que analizan empíricamente la gobernanza de la cooperación regional en distintas áreas de política social: educación(Botto, 2016;Gomes et al, 2012;Larrechea y Castro, 2009;Perrotta, 2016;Verger y Hermo, 2010); empleo(Espino, 2016); salud (Bianculli y Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016a; Herrero y Tussie, 2015) y migración(Margheritis, 2013), entre otros. Colectivamente, estos trabajos han profundizado nuestra comprensión sobre los actores, instituciones y procesos que subyacen al activismo de las organizaciones regionales en las políticas y regulaciones sociales al margen del caso europeo, y su impacto en la gobernanza y el desarrollo regional.…”

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Regionalismo e integración regional en América Latina

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2021

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Las políticas y regulaciones sociales han sido tradicionalmente abordadas a nivel doméstico y global. Consecuentemente, su estudio ha recaído en el ámbito de la política (doméstica) comparada o de los estudios globales (Kennett, 2013; Surender y Walker, 2013; Van der Vleuten, 2016). Más recientemente, sin embargo, y de manera algo modesta aún, la regulación social ha comenzado a ser estudiada a nivel regional en la medida en que la región surge como un espacio relevante para gestionar los desafíos y la incertidumbre asociados a los procesos de globalización económica y social (Bianculli y Ribeiro Hoffmann, 2016; Deacon, Van Langenhove et al., 2010; Riggirozzi y Yeates, 2015). Mientras que el caso de la Unión Europea ha sido explorado de manera exhaustiva, otras regiones y organizaciones regionales han recibido menor atención. Esto resulta especialmente sorprendente en el caso de América Latina, donde existe una larga historia y tradición de cooperación regional no solo a nivel comercial sino también en otras áreas, que incluyen salud, derechos humanos, no-intervención, y armas nucleares, entre otras (Petersen y Schulz, 2018). Este trabajo busca analizar de qué manera ha ido avanzando la regulación regional social en América Latina. A tal fin, se analiza el caso del Mercosur (Mercado Común del Sur). El análisis muestra que aun en un contexto de regionalismo abierto o nuevo regionalismo, donde el foco era la liberalización comercial, ya en los años noventa del siglo XX, Mercosur inicia un proceso regional de regulación en dos áreas de política social: educación y salud. Con el tiempo, estas dos áreas, aunque estables, han ido manifestando diferentes patrones de regulación social. Los hallazgos hablan entonces de la necesidad de avanzar en estudios más amplios que nos permitan captar continuidades en los procesos regionales, así como las posibles variaciones entre áreas de política aun dentro de una misma organización regional, donde la toma de decisiones presenta un fuerte carácter intergubernamental. Finalmente, y desde un punto de vista aplicado, muestra la necesidad de articular aún más lo regional como meso nivel entre lo nacional y lo global para dar respuestas eficaces a los problemas transfronterizos.

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New Demands and Policies on Higher Education in the Mercosur: A Comparative Study on Challenges, Resources, and Trends

Abstract: This article attempts to analyze the main tendencies of the higher education systems and policies within the Mercosur, a regional bloc composed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Cited by 5 publications

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From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

From free market to social policies? Mapping regulatory cooperation in education and health in MERCOSUR

Traveling Policies: Mobility, Transformation and Continuities in Higher Education Public Policy

Regionalismo e integración regional en América Latina

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