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

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Author / Creator:	Portes, Alejandro, 1944- author, editor.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Description:	1 online resource (221 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Social institutions -- Latin America. Economic development -- Social aspects -- Latin America. Public administration -- Latin America. Institutional economics. Social institutions. Public administration. Institutional economics. Economic development -- Social aspects. Sociology. Latin America. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11165803

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Other authors / contributors:	Smith, Lori D., 1982-
ISBN:	9780520954069 0520954068 9780520273535 0520273532 9780520273542 0520273540 0520273540 9780520273542
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780520273542
Standard no.:	9780520273542

Table of Contents:

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.

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