The conditions of socioeconomic development exploring the legitimacy of social norms, trust, and corruption in Chile and Argentina

Daniel Míguez and Matías Dewey

No 18/9, MPIfG Discussion Paper from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Abstract: A growing body of research, based on large-scale international comparisons, has associated socioeconomic development with several intervening factors, such as levels of respect for social norms, interpersonal trust, degrees of confidence in public institutions, or incidence of corruption in governmental bodies. The paper contributes to this body of scholarship by comparing the differing socioeconomic development experienced by Chile and Argentina between 1983 and 2013. Specifically, the paper inquires whether the greater socioeconomic development experienced by Chile was actually related to greater legitimacy of the law, higher levels of trust in public institutions, lower perceived levels of corruption, and greater interpersonal trust. The results of our exploration do not completely confirm or disprove this thesis. Instead, they reveal not only the need for a nuanced approach to how these factors relate to socioeconomic progress but also for their forms of association to be considered in the context of politically, socially, and economically fluctuating conditions.

Keywords: Argentina; Chile; corruption; development; fiscal policy; norms; trust; Argentinien; Entwicklung; Korruption; Normen; Steuerpolitik; Vertrauen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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