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Misuse of institutions : lessons from Transition

Poliščuk, Leonid - 2010

The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private...

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The making of policy : institutionalized or not?

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...

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Post-Communist Welfare Capitalisms : Bringing Institutions and Political Agency Back in

Cerami, Alfio - 2011

This article explores the post-communist worlds of welfare capitalism in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, including the successor states of the former Soviet Union. It discusses recent developments, whilst offering some additional theoretical reflections on the key factors that have...

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Institutional Individualism and Institutional Change : The Search for a Mode of Explanation

Toboso, Fernando - 2010

After noting the lack of enthusiasm of several well-known scholars concerning the adoption of both methodological holism and methodological individualism in its several versions, this paper shows that institutional individualism is a different mode of explanation from both of these and also that...

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Institutions and Local Development

Ferrante, Francesco - 2019

Empirical analysis shows that formal and informal institutions are key factors in explaining why some countries, as well as territories within countries, are more prosperous than others are. After almost 160 years from their formal unification, Italian territories are still quite heterogeneous...

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Populism and Institutional Capture

Chesterley, Nicholas - 2016

This paper considers electoral behavior and institutional capture when voters choose between a populist and non-populist politician. Populist politicians provide voters with a utility boom followed by a subsequent bust, as in Dornbusch and Edwards (The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin...

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Political Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change : An Evolutionary Perspective

Hederer, Christian - 2008

The paper is a contribution to the theory of institutional change. Using a process-based, evolutionary framework, a comparative analysis of economic and political entrepreneurship is provided and implications are derived for the role of political entrepreneurship, and the element of agency in...

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Institutions under pressure : East Asian states, global markets and national firms

Hamilton-Hart, Natasha; Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung - In: Review of international political economy 28 (2021) 1, pp. 11-35

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The Arts, Africa and Economic Development : The Problem of Intellectual Property Rights

Kabanda, Patrick - 2016

The subject of this article is the application of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) to Africa's cultural economy, and … its implications for development. Drawing on extensive research, including field work in Africa and interviews with key … Intellectual Property is antithetical to African culture -- that an effective Intellectual Property regime in Africa is inoperable …

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Revisiting African Agriculture : Institutional Change and Productivity Growth

Block, Steven; Bates, Robert H. - 2011

competition in Africa changed policymakers’ incentives, resulting in both sectoral and macroeconomic policy reforms favorable to …

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