Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences

Influential theories claim that institutions shape actor behavior but are sustained by these actors’ behavior. How do scholars escape from this trap of endogeneity? This article highlights a partially exogenous factor: institutional models and blueprints. Since these ideational schemes do not emerge...

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Autor principal: WEYLAND, Kurt; University of Texas
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad de Salamanca 2011
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Latin America; institution; model; idea; diffusion
América Latina; institución; modelo; idea; difusión
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/8125
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-011&d=article8125oai
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topic Latin America; institution; model; idea; diffusion
América Latina; institución; modelo; idea; difusión
spellingShingle Latin America; institution; model; idea; diffusion
América Latina; institución; modelo; idea; difusión
WEYLAND, Kurt; University of Texas
Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences
topic_facet Latin America; institution; model; idea; diffusion
América Latina; institución; modelo; idea; difusión
description Influential theories claim that institutions shape actor behavior but are sustained by these actors’ behavior. How do scholars escape from this trap of endogeneity? This article highlights a partially exogenous factor: institutional models and blueprints. Since these ideational schemes do not emerge from actor preferences, they play an independent, irreducible role in institutional creation. In fact, Latin America has borrowed many blueprints from the «First World». But transferred to a different setting, these imported models often fail to command firm, reliable compliance and do not operate well. Therefore, informal mechanisms arise and guide behavior. External borrowing thus produces persistent disjunctures in institutional development.
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title Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences
title_short Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences
title_full Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences
title_fullStr Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences
title_full_unstemmed Institutional change in Latin America: external models and their unintended consequences
title_sort institutional change in latin america: external models and their unintended consequences
publisher Universidad de Salamanca
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url http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/8125
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