This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for some 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...

This article advances a new framework for investigating a simple yet fundamental question: In what ways does the law on the books reflect cultural values? We analyze relations between indices of investors' legal rights - as coded by La Porta et al. (LLSV) - and national cultural profiles. These...

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...

Using cross-sectional samples of nations from around the world and drawing on two models of cultural dimensions in cross-cultural psychology, we analyze the relations between investors' legal rights - as reflected in the indices of La Porta et al. (LLSV) - and national cultural profiles. We find...

Using cross-sectional samples of nations from around the world and drawing on two models of cultural dimensions in cross-cultural psychology, we study the relations between investors' legal rights - as reflected in the indices of La Porta et al. (LLSV) - and national cultural profiles. We find...