Mobilização política e rede de interesses na produção calçadista de Jaú

Abstract

The study of policy network is crucial to understand the environment in which strategic interaction between actors and organizations take place, and it depends upon various resources such as financial, technological, organizational, political, legal, and constitutional. The implementation of network policy studies in Clusters (LPAs) can explain their economic and social development through the formulation of policies that are adopted locally. This paper aims to show the relevance of policy network analysis in the study of Local Productive Arrangements' focusing on the LPA of the city of Jau's. Therefore, a field research was carried out using a semi-structured questionnaire to investigate companies, unions, and local government representatives in the LPA of Jau's footwear industry.