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Как происходит начальный выбор институтов? Критика концепции "случайного развития" и структурный подход

Общественные науки и современность. 2017. Т. 5. С. 147–162.
Scherbak A. N.

The paper aims to criticize one of the key argument of neoinstitutional theory – the “accidental” nature of institutional choice. The most consistently this idea is represented in Acemoglu and Robinson’s seminal book “Why nations fail”. According to their approach, the initial institutional choice is influenced by accidental, random historical circumstances. I disagree with this assumption due to the fact that it ignores microfoundations of the institutional choice in European societies. Using various historical data on demography, environment, economy I demonstrate the effects of structural conditions on modernization and further choice for inclusive institutions in North-West Europe. Referring to the ”model” comparison of England and Spain in the early Modern Time I show that England was much more developed than Spain prior to the moment of the institutional choice. That allows me to argue that the institutional choice in England was not accidental. The main conclusion is that institutions are the reason of development, but they are the consequence of development. 

Research target: Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology Earth Sciences Biology Economics and Management Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Priority areas: sociology
Language: Russian
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Keywords: демографиямодернизациягеографияинститутыeconomic institutionsmodernizationНовое времяdemographygeographyearly Modern Time
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Эволюция культур сквозь призму трансформации личностной мотивации (2017)
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