How Does Institutional Change Coincide with Changes in the Quality of Life? An Exemplary Case Study
How Does Institutional Change Coincide with Changes in the Quality of Life? An Exemplary Case Study
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制度变迁如何与生活质量的变化相一致？
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.2261388
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Simon Hartmann
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作者：
A. Exenberger;Simon Hartmann
本文提供了一个框架，以评估机构职能的变化（政治集权，多元化，法治，财产安全，经济自由，衡量12个指标）和人类发展（收入，教育，健康）和暴力限制（冲突相关的死亡人数）的改善之间的相关性，以区分有效和无效的制度变革。我们应用这个框架，以低端的制度环境，并提供了一个世纪的案例研究，今天的刚果（DRC）的民主共和国。主要成果有三方面：首先，我们提供了一个厚厚的描述刚果的制度发展在殖民地和后殖民地，因此长期的设置;第二，我们确定的制度变革的时期，具有明显不同程度的有效性;第三，我们能够提供定性信息的问题的角度（我们遵循非精英的方法），制度连接，和时间的影响。最后，我们提出了扩展的框架，特别是在深入研究的关键过渡时期，其应用比较案例研究。
This paper provides a framework to assess correlations between the change of institutional functions (political centralization, plurality, rule of law, security of property, economic liberty, measured by 12 indicators) and improvements in human development (income, education, health) and violence limitations (conflict-related death tolls) to separate effective from ineffective institutional change. We apply this framework to a low-end institutional environment and provide a century case study of today’s Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Major results are threefold: first, we provide a thick description of institutional development in the Congo in a colonial and post-colonial and hence long-run setting; secondly, we identify periods of institutional change with distinctly different degrees of effectiveness; and thirdly, we are able to provide qualitative information on the questions of perspective (we follow a non-elitist approach), institutional connections, and timing of effects. Finally we propose extension of the framework, especially with respect to in-depth studies of critical transition periods, and its application to comparative case studies.