TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brinks, Daniel M.
AU  - Levitsky, Steven
AU  - Murillo, Maria Victoria
TI  - Understanding institutional weakness: power and design in latin American institutions
SN  - 9781108738880
U1  - 320.98 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Defining institutions
3. Institutional weakness
4. Accounting for institutional weakness
5. The persistence of institutional weakness in Latin America
6. Conclusion
N2  - 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
ER  -