culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …

maintain, and pass on to their children, a view of the world where effort ultimately pays off and everyone gets their just … deserts. This paper offers a model that helps explain: i) why most people feel such a need to believe in a "just world"; ii … by a high prevalence of just-world beliefs among the population and relatively laissez-faire policies. The other …

-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment …

imposed on a set of otherwise identical individuals (ex ante randomization). The implications for optimal tax theory are …