Institutional Change in Latin America: External Models and their Unintended Consequences Cambio institucional en América Latina. Modelos externos y sus consequencias involuntarias
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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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Politics in Latin America |
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| Online Access: | http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/21 |