El cambio institucional de la economía española del franquismo a la democraciaUn análisis histórico institucional
- 1 Universidad de Vigo,
ISSN: 1405-1060, 1685-2037
Year of publication: 2008
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 353-401
Type: Article
More publications in: Política y gobierno
Abstract
Institutions have returned to the research agenda of social sciences on renewedtheoretical foundations. The new institutional economics and the historical and comparativeinstitutional analysis have made theoretical contributions on the historical, political,and economic role of institutions, with Douglass North and Avner Greif being the maincontributors. This paper analyzes the process of institutional change of the Spanisheconomy in the transition from Francoism to democracy. The analysis studies the existence of a Northian predatory State in the self-undermining institutional equilibrium ofthe early Francoism, and it follows the path of institutional change towards the self-reinforcinginstitutions with a contractual State on the democratic stage