Ideas and Impact: Continuity, Change and Constraints in the Institutional Landscape of Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Trinidad and Tobago

In the context of Caribbean small island jurisdictions, a picture has customarily been painted of bloated bureaucracies, the prevalence of state institutions in the mechanics of governance, institutional weakness and a lack of institutional innovation. We argue that particularistic claims about enduring institutional structures and behaviours have not come about in a vacuum. Our core contribution is toward Caribbean comparative scholarship from an institutional standpoint, whereby we utilize selected aspects of a constructivist theoretical framework, together with a Most Similar Systems Resear... Mehr ...