Paradiplomacy as an Instrument of Policy Change: A Case of Brazilian States during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mauricio Loboda Fronzaglia
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 seve… Show more
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