Understanding institutional weakness: power and design in latin American institutions

By:

Brinks, Daniel M

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press New York 2019Description: 68 pISBN:

9781108738880

DDC classification:

320.98 BRI

Summary: This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state elites either choose not to enforce the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation with them; and instability, in which the rules are changed at an unusually high rate. The Element then examines the sources of institutional weakness.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Public Policy & General Management	320.98 BRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		002587

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Defining institutions
3. Institutional weakness
4. Accounting for institutional weakness
5. The persistence of institutional weakness in Latin America
6. Conclusion.

This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state elites either choose not to enforce the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation with them; and instability, in which the rules are changed at an unusually high rate. The Element then examines the sources of institutional weakness.

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