Weberian versus Pluralistic Legal Forces in the Global Political Economy
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Max Weber, Legal Pluralism, Global Law, pluralismo legal, derecho globalAbstract
This picture supports a view that modernization processes lead naturally to legal structures similar to what can be observed in Western societies and that also global structures will emerge on the same model. Together with modernization theory another prominent theory often alluded to as justification for legalization is Institutional Economics where rules and institutions are considered mechanisms for effective transaction costs avoidance. My earlier publications compare these and other approaches for explaining the role of law in the economy. A third theory is Max Weber’s legal rationalization, an evolutionary process running from traditional irrational forms to formal, bureaucratic forms of legal domination. Weber’s view that legal rationalization is our “fate” and informal rules and institutions are necessarily outdated will be reconsidered from a historical perspective and confronted with empirical data gathered in the area of the governance of global business transactions. This article will attempt to show that although Weber’s influential approach still helps to explain much of what occurs in domestic models of capitalism it doesn’t seem to grasp the growing complexities of globalized capitalism.
Este análisis apoya la opinión de que los procesos de modernización conducen naturalmente a las estructuras jurídicas similares a lo que se observa en las sociedades occidentales y que también las estructuras globales surgirán en el mismo modelo. Junto con la teoría de la modernización, otra teoría prominente a menudo aludida como justificación para la legalización es la Economía Institucional, donde las reglas y las instituciones se consideran mecanismos para evitar los costos de transacción de efectivo. Las publicaciones anteriores del autor comparan estos y otros enfoques para explicar el papel de la ley en la economía. Una tercera teoría es la racionalización jurídica de Max Weber, un proceso evolutivo que va desde las formas tradicionales a las formas irracionales formales y burocráticas de dominación legal. Desde el punto de vista de Weber la racionalización jurídica es nuestro "destino" y las normas e instituciones informales necesariamente obsoleta serán examinadas de nuevo desde una perspectiva histórica y confrontadas con los datos empíricos recogidos en el ámbito del gobierno de las transacciones comerciales globales. En este artículo trataremos de mostrar que a pesar de que el enfoque influyente de Weber todavía ayuda a explicar gran parte de lo que ocurre en los modelos internos del capitalismo, no parece comprender la creciente complejidad del capitalismo globalizado.
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