从制度主义角度看,国家的制度变革涉及到正式制度(规则)的改革和非正式制度(规则)的变迁。然而正式制度的重新设计,受制于决策者主观因素的影响,不可避免地会与非正式制度产生各种不协调甚至冲突。阿根廷20世纪八九十年代的国家变革中,经济自由化政策与传统的"民众主义"非正式规则发生了冲突,政治民主化政策促使传统"地方庇护主义"非正式规则不断强化。这种正式制度与非正式制度的相互作用极大地影响了国家政治经济体系的稳定,并最终引发了国家危机的产生。
From the perspective of institutionalism, national reform is concerned with reforming the formal institutions and changing the informal ones. However, the redesigning of the formal institutions, subjected to the subjective factors of decision makers, will inevitably produce a variety of discordance and even conflict with the informal institutional system. During the Argentine national reform in 1980s and 1990s, the policies of economic liberalization clashed with the informal rules of traditional populism, and the policies of political democratization kept reinforcing the traditional informal rules of "local clientelism". Such an interaction between the formal system and the informal system greatly affected the stability of the country's political and economic system, and eventually led to a national crisis.