CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Galdiz, Miguel Marcelo |
|---|---|
| Title | Discursive Institutionalism in South American Integration: the case of the FTAA |
| Summary | Guided by an awareness of the limited research on institutional change and regional integration on South America, this thesis aims to provide a relevant case-study that engages with recent debate on both regionalism and institutionalism. It aims to do this by presenting a cross-disciplinary framework of analysis informed by theories of international relations, public policy, and institutionalism. In this framework, the thesis emphasizes the assessment of the contribution of discursive institutionalism as a tool of analysis to account for endogenous change in institutional formation in South America. The analysis constructed from this cross-disciplinary approach will support the notion that institutional formation and change in South America was exogenously affected throughout the Cold War and the 1990s, becoming endogenously driven by the predominance of the belief systems of key players after this period. This thesis will find that discursive institutionalism can be a useful complementary tool of institutional analysis in a comparative scenario. |
| Supervisor | Thilo Bodenstien |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/galdiz_miguel.pdf |
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