1. IHEID-DESCO “Executive Master en Políticas y Prácticas del Desarrollo
Módulo 1: “Políticas y prácticas de desarrollo en el marco de la globalización”
Lima, 9-10 de agosto de 2016
Policy failure
Guillaume Fontaine, Esther Sánchez, Marco Córdova y Susan Velasco
FLACSO Ecuador/Departamento de Asuntos Públicos

2. 1. Introduction: Ideas and institutions in policy change
Policy paradigms as ideas
Ideas as INUS
Policy failure
Organization
Analytical framework and method
The “Yasuni-ITT Initiative”
Institutions in policy change
Conclusions

3. 2. Analytical framework and method
Three-order change framework
Programatic aims and means
Strategic aims and means
Operational aims and means
Policy instruments
Nodality
Authority
Treasure
Organization
Causal mechanism

4. 3. The Yasuni-ITT Initiative
Oil extraction in the Yasuni National Park
Competing coalitions within government
The 2006 policy window
Option A
Option B

5. 4. How institutions shape policy change
Competing policies
3rd order change: Two different interpretations of the good life principles
2nd order change: Two contradictory definitions of the aims and means of development
1st order change: Two contradictory ways of financing development
From third to second and first-order change
Causal mechanism
New policy paradigm in constitutional principle of good life
Inconsistent policy mix
Low financial contribution
Withdrawal of the “Initiative”

6. 5. Conclusion: Beyond policy failure
The closing of a policy window
The civil society weakened
Business as usual for the petroleum sector

7. Gracias por su atención
Guillaume Fontaine