representation (PR), was the desire of the Conservative and Liberal parties to come up with a way of credibly dividing power to avoid … problem with majoritarian electoral institutions was that they did not allocate power in a way which matched the support of … with the rising support for socialism and the desire to divide power more broadly. Our findings shed new light on the …

where the survival of the system is at stake; that is, at its core. Here, power becomes salient. This helps explain why …

transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …

In this paper we characterize a situation in which non-calculative trust has to play a role in the decision to …

driven by trust. With flexible prices, we observe low prices and high quality in competitive (oligopolistic) markets, and …

with a low level of trust in government institutions and recognition of high and rising levels of corruption. The findings …

choose with whom within their group they want to play a trust game. Participants observe of each other age, gender …. Participants tend to trust those they trusted before and who trusted them. We do not find evidence of regional discrimination per …