Institutions in Development Research: Buzzword or Real Impact?
Journal of Contextual Economics, Vol. 137 (2017), Issue 1–2.
Edited by Magdalene Silberberger Edited by Joachim Zweynert
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(February 2018)
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In recent years, economists and social scientists have (re-)discovered the impact of institutions on growth and development. Moreover, by now the insight that »institutions matter« has become common wisdom, not only in academia but also in development organizations and in politics. The papers in this volume intend to shed light on the question whether »institution« is just a new buzzword or whether the inclusion of the institutional dimension of development provides real and politically relevant insights.
In recent years, economists and social scientists have (re-)discovered the impact of institutions on growth and development. A quickly growing empirical literature seems to provide ever more evidence that the quality of institutions is the key determinant of the wealth or poverty of nations. Moreover, the insight that “institutions matter” has become common wisdom also in development organizations and in politics. At the same time, development research and practice have both seen a long chain of buzzwords and concepts which, for a certain period of time, were believed to provide the key to explaining the global problems of development. Sooner or later, however, all of these buzzwords went out of fashion and were replaced by new buzzwords and simple policy prescriptions based on these. The papers in this volume intend to shed light on the question whether “institution” is just a new buzzword or whether the inclusion of the institutional dimension of development provides real and politically relevant insights.
Magdalene Silberberger and Joachim Zweynert
Introduction
Alice Nicole Sindzingre
Institutions as a Composite Concept: Explaining their Indeterminate Relationships with Economic Outcomes
Christian Berker
The Geopolitical Context for Institutional Change: The Case of Prussia in the 17th and 18th Century
Johanna Friederike Goetter
Development, Informal Institutions and Agency Analyzed through the Lens of New Institutional Anthropology: A Modification of Ensminger's Framework on Institutional Change
Valentin Seidler
Institutional Copying in the 20th Century: The Role of 14,000 British Colonial Officers
Janis Kluge
Can Regulatory Competition Improve Contracting Institutions? A Russian Tale of Two Reforms
Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Balgah Roland Azibo
Repositioning Local Institutions in Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa
Ngozi Adeleye, Evans Osabuohien and Ebenezer Bowale
The Role of Institutions in the Finance-Inequality Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joachim Zweynert studied economics and political science at the University of Hamburg. Since 2011 he has been Professor of International Political Economy at Witten/Herdecke University. From 2014 to 2017 he was the founding director of the Witten Institute for Institutional Change. He is one of the editors of the »Journal of Contextual Economics. Schmollers Jahrbuch«. Joachim Zweynert’s main fields of research are institutions and institutional change, political economy and the history of economic ideas.
Magdalene Silberberger studied economics at the University of Wuppertal and the Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France, majoring in international economics and did her PhD at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since 2015, she has been assistant professor of Development Economics at Witten/Herdecke University. Her main field of interest is empirical work in international trade and development economics with a focus on institutions, regulations and the environment.
- Edited by Magdalene Silberberger
- Edited by Joachim Zweynert
Other Titles in this Series
Symposium “Schmoller’s Legacy for the 21st Century”.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 126. Jg. (2006), Heft 2 (S. 139–336).
Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006).
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 127. Jg. (2007), Heft 1.
Proceedings of the “5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Users”.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 123. Jg. (2003), Heft 1.
Symposium “The Economics of Mandated Codetermination”.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 123. Jg. (2003), Heft 3 (S. 337–470).
Ökonomische Analysen zu den Effekten von Aufsichtsrats- und Betriebsratsmitbestimmung in Deutschland – Empirische Analysen mit Firmendaten.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 131. Jg. (2011), Heft 1.
SOEP 2010.
Proceedings of the 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference. Schmollers Jahrbuch, 131. Jg. (2011), Heft 2 (S. 207–429).
Neighbourhood Effects Studies on the Basis of European Micro Data.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 128. Jg. (2008), Heft 1.
Symposium “Financial Risks of Natural Hazards: Markets and the Role of the State”.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 128. Jg. (2008), Heft 4 (S. 511–673).
SOEP after 25 Years.
Proceedings of the 8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference. Schmollers Jahrbuch, 129. Jg. (2009), Heft 2 (S. 149–374).
Proceedings of the “6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users (SOEP 2004)”.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 125. Jg. (2005), Heft 1.
Workshop “Untersuchungen mit Mikrodaten aus der Amtlichen Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik”.
Schmollers Jahrbuch, 125. Jg. (2005), Heft 4 (S. 449–599).
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