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Institutions Count
Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development
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Institutions Count
Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development
About this book
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 the same methodology. The country chapters present detailed results of this empirical exercise for each individual country. The introductory chapters present the theoretical framework and research methodology for the full study. The summary results of this ambitious study presented in the concluding chapter draw comparisons across countries and discuss what these results mean for national development in Latin America.
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Yes, you can access Institutions Count by Alejandro Portes, Lori D. Smith, Prof. Alejandro Portes,Lori D. Smith in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Institutions and Development: A Conceptual Reanalysis
- 2. The Comparative Study of Institutions: The "Institutional Turn" in Development Studies
- 3. Institutional Change and Development in Argentina
- 4. Institutional Change and Development in Chilean Market Society
- 5. The Colombian Paradox: A Thick Institutionalist Analysis
- 6. Development Opportunities: Politics, the State, and Institutions in the Dominican Republic in the Twenty-First Century
- 7. The Uneven and Paradoxical Development of Mexico's Institutions
- 8. Conclusion: The Comparative Analysis of the Role of Institutions in National Development
- Appendix: Investigators
- Contributors
- Index