Recombinant workfare, across the Americas: Transnationalizing “fast” social policy |
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| Authors: | Jamie Peck Nik Theodore |
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| Institution: | a Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2
b Center for Urban Economic Development and Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA |
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| Abstract: | The paper presents a genealogy of the Bloomberg administration’s Opportunity NYC program, launched in 2007 as part of New York City’s explicitly experimental anti-poverty strategy. Opportunity NYC was modeled on “conditional cash transfer” programs, currently operating in more than thirty countries across the Global South, drawing direct inspiration from Mexico’s widely touted Oportunidades program. This striking case of South-North policy emulation calls attention to some distinctive features of what is characterized here as a transnationalizing “fast-policy” regime, based on technocratic forms of program evaluation and development, dense expert networks, and orchestrated communities of practice, within which a range of policy intermediaries—particularly those connected with multilateral agencies—are assuming significant new roles. What appears to be a pragmatic form of policy learning in fact operates in the context of narrow ideological parameters, within which there is a concerted technocratic “push” toward favored solutions. |
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| Keywords: | Conditional cash transfers Anti-poverty policy Welfare Workfare Social policy |
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