The Agricultural Cooperative Movement of Chaco. A Study Proposal

Abstract

The studies that focused on the topic of first-degree agricultural cooperative movement in the Province of Chaco, did it from different perspectives (historical-institutional, economic, geographic, sociological, etc.), with different objectives and sources. Nevertheless, what all these works had in common was that their analysis took into consideration the political and institutional evolution of the Nation-State. Methodologically, this strategy succeeded in considering the first-degree cooperative societies. However, such strategy did not show the internal dynamics of the institutions, nor their evolution in relation to other factors that shaped their evolution.
The objective of this paper is to generate a study proposal that begins with the cooperative institutions themselves, based on institutional analysis, which might work as a model for future approaches to this theme.