Modalities of Cooperation and Policy Transfer: The Case of the European Programme for Social Cohesion in Latin America—EUROsociAL II

Abstract

This paper analyses the capacity of the South–South cooperation model (SSC) to facilitate policy transfer between countries, as opposed to North–South cooperation modalities. To this end, the nature and evolution of SSC, and especially its horizontality, and the changes in the policy transfer (PT) actors, are analysed with reference to what is being transferred. It is assumed that the nature of developed SSC models, and the inequality of positioning policies in the global policy market, affect the content of what is transferred and limit the capacities of SSC to transfer policy models between countries in the South. The empirical contrast is made through the analysis of the Programme EUROsociAL II, which has transferred knowledge for social cohesion policies in Latin America through horizontal and vertical models.