{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2166283684","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x08004689","title":"Inequality, Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America","display_name":"Inequality, Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America","publication_year":2008,"publication_date":"2008-07-17","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2166283684","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x08004689","mag":"2166283684"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0022216x08004689","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x08004689","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x08004689","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S169672611","display_name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","issn_l":"0022-216X","issn":["0022-216X","1469-767X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-3","latindex","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5057139166","display_name":"John Coatsworth","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I78577930","display_name":"Columbia University","ror":"https://ror.org/00hj8s172","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I78577930"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"JOHN H. COATSWORTH","raw_affiliation_strings":["John H. Coatsworth is Professor of History and International and Public Affairs, and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Email:"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"John H. Coatsworth is Professor of History and International and Public Affairs, and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Email:","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I78577930"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5057139166"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I78577930"],"apc_list":{"value":3550,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3550},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":25.7621,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":239,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99562819,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":97,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":"40","issue":"3","first_page":"545","last_page":"569"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12312","display_name":"Culture, Economy, and Development Studies","score":0.7778000235557556,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3317","display_name":"Demography"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12312","display_name":"Culture, Economy, and Development Studies","score":0.7778000235557556,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3317","display_name":"Demography"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10605","display_name":"Historical Economic and Social Studies","score":0.11400000005960464,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2002","display_name":"Economics and Econometrics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/20","display_name":"Economics, Econometrics and Finance"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13460","display_name":"Historical Studies in Latin America","score":0.04879999905824661,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3317","display_name":"Demography"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/inequality","display_name":"inequality","score":0.6809999942779541},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/colonial-institutions","display_name":"colonial institutions","score":0.7649999856948853},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/economic-growth","display_name":"economic growth","score":0.9070000052452087},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/underdevelopment","display_name":"underdevelopment","score":0.7829999923706055},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/political-economy-of-latin-america","display_name":"Latin American political economy","score":0.7699999809265137},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/institutional-constraints","display_name":"institutional constraints","score":0.6470000147819519},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/economic-elites","display_name":"economic elites","score":0.5920000076293945},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/economic-convergence","display_name":"economic convergence","score":0.7149999737739563}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775947652","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2362573","display_name":"Backwardness","level":2,"score":0.9048693180084229},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C32561294","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2476047","display_name":"Underdevelopment","level":2,"score":0.8576558828353882},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C531593650","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7167","display_name":"Colonialism","level":2,"score":0.7157168984413147},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C45555294","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28113351","display_name":"Inequality","level":2,"score":0.7147898077964783},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775987171","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192797","display_name":"Elite","level":3,"score":0.6917387843132019},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C158886217","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16799549","display_name":"Latin Americans","level":2,"score":0.6476991772651672},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C35651441","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q625303","display_name":"Independence (probability theory)","level":2,"score":0.5595596432685852},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C47768531","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1127188","display_name":"Development economics","level":1,"score":0.5281243920326233},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.48939934372901917},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C513380476","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5055020","display_name":"Economic inequality","level":3,"score":0.48131263256073},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C53844881","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q856122","display_name":"Modernization theory","level":2,"score":0.4779489040374756},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777303404","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q759757","display_name":"Convergence (economics)","level":2,"score":0.4572437107563019},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138921699","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47555","display_name":"Political economy","level":1,"score":0.44199803471565247},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.4154902696609497},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.40588194131851196},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C6303427","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47398","display_name":"Economic history","level":1,"score":0.3513021767139435},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50522688","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189833","display_name":"Economic growth","level":1,"score":0.20489010214805603},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105795698","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12483","display_name":"Statistics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C134306372","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754","display_name":"Mathematical analysis","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/s0022216x08004689","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x08004689","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x08004689","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S169672611","display_name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","issn_l":"0022-216X","issn":["0022-216X","1469-767X"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","erih-plus","jufo-3","latindex","norway-1","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Latin American Studies","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.8974000215530396,"display_name":"Reduced inequalities","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":10,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1967084363","https://openalex.org/W2018074552","https://openalex.org/W2041603861","https://openalex.org/W2046052928","https://openalex.org/W2057869900","https://openalex.org/W2069415908","https://openalex.org/W2108809530","https://openalex.org/W2993597170","https://openalex.org/W4247737317","https://openalex.org/W4313165438"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1506427104","https://openalex.org/W3122677731","https://openalex.org/W4230967935","https://openalex.org/W4408140443","https://openalex.org/W2268141990","https://openalex.org/W1486218478","https://openalex.org/W2622287810","https://openalex.org/W3031770032","https://openalex.org/W2889848869","https://openalex.org/W2109010990"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract":[0],"This":[1],"essay":[2],"examines":[3],"three":[4,19],"recent":[5],"historical":[6],"approaches":[7],"to":[8,31,61,95,108,115],"the":[9,21,39,56,62,74,90,106,125],"political":[10,116],"economy":[11],"of":[12,23,41,58,67,92,102],"Latin":[13],"America's":[14],"relative":[15],"economic":[16,83,103,113],"backwardness.":[17],"All":[18],"locate":[20],"origins":[22],"contemporary":[24],"underdevelopment":[25],"in":[26,105],"defective":[27],"colonial":[28,52,82],"institutions":[29],"linked":[30],"inequality.":[32],"The":[33,100],"contrasting":[34],"view":[35],"offered":[36],"here":[37],"affirms":[38],"significance":[40],"institutional":[42,96],"constraints,":[43],"but":[44,54,118],"argues":[45],"that":[46],"they":[47],"did":[48],"not":[49,79],"arise":[50],"from":[51,55],"inequalities,":[53],"adaptation":[57],"Iberian":[59],"practices":[60],"American":[63],"colonies":[64],"under":[65],"conditions":[66],"imperial":[68],"weakness.":[69],"Colonial":[70],"inequality":[71,122],"varied":[72],"across":[73],"Americas;":[75],"while":[76],"it":[77,85,88],"was":[78],"correlated":[80],"with":[81],"performance,":[84],"mattered":[86],"because":[87],"determined":[89],"extent":[91],"elite":[93],"resistance":[94],"modernisation":[97],"after":[98],"independence.":[99],"onset":[101],"growth":[104,128],"mid":[107],"late":[109],"nineteenth":[110],"century":[111],"brought":[112],"elites":[114],"power,":[117],"excluding":[119],"majorities":[120],"as":[121],"increased":[123],"restrained":[124],"region's":[126],"twentieth-century":[127],"rates":[129],"and":[130],"prevented":[131],"convergence.":[132]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":8},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":27},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":11},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":26},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":14},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":23},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":12},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":15},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":11},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":10},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":15},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":14},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":14}],"updated_date":"2026-10-31T12:09:11.096373","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}