Institutions count : their role and significance in Latin American development /

Portes, Alejandro, 1944-

Institutions count : their role and significance in Latin American development / [written and edited by] Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith. - 1 online resource (221 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institutions and development: a conceptual reanalysis / Alejandro Portes -- The comparative study of institutions: the "institutional turn" in development studies / Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith -- Institutional change and development in Argentina / Alejandro Grimson, Ana Castellani, and Alexander Roig -- Institutional change and development in Chilean market society / Guillermo Wormald and Daniel Brieba -- The Colombian paradox: a thick institutionalist analysis / César Rodríguez-Garavito -- Development opportunities: politics, the state, and institutions in the Dominican Republic in the twenty-first century / Wilfredo Lozano -- The uneven and paradoxical development of Mexico's institutions / José Luis Velasco -- Conclusion: The comparative analysis of the role of institutions in national development / Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith.

What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of institutions in five Latin American countries and how they differ within and across nations. Postal systems, stock exchanges, public health services and others were included in the sample, all studied with th.


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9780520954069 0520954068 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0520273540 9780520273542 1283543249 9781283543248 9786613855695 6613855693

9780520273542 10.1525/9780520954069 doi

22573/ctt1pjnh7 JSTOR

2012021915


Social institutions--Latin America.
Economic development--Social aspects--Latin America.
Public administration--Latin America.
Institutional economics.
Institutions sociales--Amérique latine.
Administration publique (Science)--Amérique latine.
Institutionnalisme.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General.
Social institutions.
Public administration.
Institutional economics.
Economic development--Social aspects.
Sociology.


Latin America.


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