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Informationen zum Autor Alejandro Portes is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. He is the author of several UC Press books! including Legacies! Ethnicities ! Immigrant America and City on the Edge . Lori D. Smith is completing her doctorate in Sociology at Princeton. Klappentext " Institutions Count is an impressively collaborative project and a valuable contribution! both for its lucid presentation of case study data across countries and cultures as well as its new insights to the roles institutions play in national development." -Bryan R. Roberts! Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas! Austin " Institutions Count by Portes and Smith is a significant addition to studies of institutions as well as studies of development. The main contributions include a clarification of the concept of institutions; an impeccable methodology for the empirical analysis of five institutions in five developing countries; and an innovative! comparative analysis of the outcomes of the individual studies. It is to be recommended to scholars across the social sciences who are frustrated by the lack of rigor in the existing literature on the increasingly popular topic of institutions."-Barbara Stallings! Wm. R. Rhodes Research Professor! Brown University Zusammenfassung 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 shows how real institutions affect national development. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Institutions and Development: A Conceptual Reanalysis Alejandro Portes 2. The Comparative Study of Institutions: The "Institutional Turn" in Development Studies: A Review Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith 3. Institutional Change and Development in Argentina Alejandro Grimson! Ana Castellani! and Alexander Roig 4. Institutional Change and Development in Chilean Market Society Guillermo Wormald and Daniel Brieba 5. The Colombian Paradox: A Thick Institutional Analysis César Rodríguez-Garavito 6. Development Opportunities: Politics! the State! and Institutions in the Dominican Republic in the Twenty-First Century Wilfredo Lozano 7. The Uneven and Paradoxical Development of Mexico's Institutions José Luis Velasco 8. Conclusion: The Comparative Analysis of the Role of Institutions in National Development Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith Appendix: Investigators Contributors Index ...
