TY  - BOOK
AU  - Portes,Alejandro
AU  - Smith,Lori D.
TI  - Institutions count: their role and significance in Latin American development 
SN  - 9780520954069
AV  - HN110.5.A8 P665 2012
U1  - 303.4098 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Social institutions
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Institutional economics
KW  - Institutions sociales
KW  - Amérique latine
KW  - Administration publique (Science)
KW  - Institutionnalisme
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociology
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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