Title
How do "Mineral-States" Learn? Path-Dependence, Networks, and Policy Change in the Development of Economic Institutions
Date Issued
01 March 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Abstract
Based on case-study methods, I draw lessons from the political economy of macroeconomic management in Chile and Peru to explain how "mineral-states" learn to think long term and eventually escape the resource curse. I give an institutionalist account of the rise of countercyclical funds, showing how the long-term development of elite networks qualifies the contemporary making of curse-escapes. Policy networks compose one central avenue of institutional development, for both the reproduction of path-dependence and the making of institutional change. The exposition challenges political economy of development frameworks which over-emphasize structural (initial) conditions and assume steady (rent-seeking) behavior of state agents. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Start page
138
End page
148
Volume
43
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia política
Economía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84875387385
Source
World Development
ISSN of the container
0305750X
Sponsor(s)
Financial support for this research was provided by Columbia University’s Institute of Latin American Studies. I am very grateful to Carlos Huneeus and Joaquín Vial for incredible help during fieldwork and to Rosemary Thorp for her advice over the years. The Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University hosted me while writing the manuscript, granting an incredibly supportive academic atmosphere. Emily Kirkland and Julia Schuster provided outstanding research assistance.
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