Institutions, organizations and democracy: a review of theoretical approaches for the analysis of state management in Latin America

The article makes a theoretical review of the evolution of the problem of democratic institutions in recent democracies, presenting the standard approaches to study the relationship between political regime and public policy. It is argued that academics have stopped treating democracy from a perspec...

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Autor: Andrade Andrade, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Estudios de la Gestión
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/1444
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/eg/article/view/1444
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Instituciones
política
organizaciones
teoría
cambio
Institutions
policies
organizations
theory
change
Instituições, políticas, organizações, teoria, mudança
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Sumario:The article makes a theoretical review of the evolution of the problem of democratic institutions in recent democracies, presenting the standard approaches to study the relationship between political regime and public policy. It is argued that academics have stopped treating democracy from a perspective focused on the components of the political regime to concentrate on the functioning of political institutions in relation to state management. The essay examines three aspects of this new wave of research: mainstream political economy, the approach of informal institutions, and the perspective of political agreements. The review pays particular attention to the place that these three approaches give organizations as political actors. The author concludes by presenting the implications of his theoretical evolution for an empirical research agenda that can be developed from the confluence between political economy and organizational studies.