Abstract

RIOJAS LOPEZ, Carlos. Global institutional change in late twentieth century: connections between Latin America and Central Europe. Diálogos rev. electr. hist [online]. 2017, vol.18, n.1, pp.225-245. ISSN 1409-469X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/dre.v18i1.24010.

The paper has as objective to explore how the different processes of institutional change in Latin America and Central Europe were entangled in a context of global transformations. To support my argument, I offer a comparison of the Human Development and Education Index in order to explore a possible relationship between these variables and the advances on the processes of democratization in Latin America and Central Europe. Some neo-institutional economic theorists mentioned that education level has the potential to impact the speed of institutional change; however, based in empirical evidences I argue that education’s variable explains part of the process but not all phenomenon as a whole.

Keywords : economic development; public politics; politic and government; globalization; international relations.

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