Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions (Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America)

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.

• | Author: Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky, Maria Victoria Murillo
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 75 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1108738885
• | ISBN-13: 9781108738880