Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2008
liberalization and democracy.1 Indeed, the significance of informal institutions such as
social trust – unwritten rules, social … existence of institutions of
direct democracy in Swiss cantons has been shown to proxy for the differences in
happiness … Freedom House (2005); 3) the Polity IV index of
democracy from Marshall and Jaggers (2002); 4)-5) Helliwell’s (2006, C43 and …