Institutions and Economic Development : The Role of Collective Action Theory
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چکیده
How frequently in recommending changes one confronts the retort that such suggestions of change are of no use since "the powers that be" cannot he budged, i.e., the existing system is too entrenched to permit change. Such pessimism about the prospects for change is especially common in developing countries. The purpose of the present paper is to explore the possibilities of drawing on the theory of collective action for some clues about how and under what conditions the familiar obstacles to institutional change in the development context might be overcome.
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