Pointing is especially useful when the participants do not share a common institutional vocabulary or even a common language.
Long terms variables, such as political culture, seem to be more important for understanding current obstacles at institutional consolidation.
Thus, institutional design emerges as a factor in understanding lobbying success.
In some respects, this is surprising, as urban planning had existed on an institutional basis only since the early twentieth century.
This has created an institutional vacuum where no equivalent rural institutions have emerged to take charge of the functions undertaken by the communidades.
In this institutional struggle, some groups will end up supporting their second preference in order to avoid an even worse outcome.
An interesting feature of this result is that is does not depend upon any institutional structures as such.
To be fair, the book is explicitly an institutional history, and as such has no obligation to engage large historiographical themes.
