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Chapter 4 of the book "Bounded Rationality & Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America," by Kurt Weyland is presented. It explores the crucial question of whether decisionmakers in Latin America pursued the goals of resolving problems that threatened long-established interests in pension privatization. It invetigates whether they relied on cognitive shortcuts that skewed their judgments, or searched for the relevant information and process it in a systematic and balanced fashion.

Chapter 1 of the book "Bounded Rationality & Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America," by Kurt Weyland is presented. It explores the social sector reforms in Latin America and examines how they adopt policy innovations from other countries such as tax simplifications and pension privatizations. It analyzes the spread of pension privatization and health reform in Latin America and looks at their variation across several countries in the region including Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.