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The ratings of political institutions are well-known and widely used in academic literature. These ratings are mostly … indices predict economic growth better than those commonly used, primarily because they include information about institutions …
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focuses on innovation, high levels of tolerance, and strong institutions, while the latter focuses on investment, a lower …-level of tolerance, and weak political institutions. Institutions do matter – they seem to be a causal mechanism in the … relationship between tolerance and modernization. Institutions play a significant role in the tolerant model, where a post …
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The core idea of the paper is to put the social embeddedness of economic phenomena as a key concept in economic sociology at the heart of empirical research. The author stresses the importance of taking into account the temporal dimension of market exchange. It is shown that the continuation of...
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environmental factors (e.g. institutions, culture) on one hand, and accumulated human capital on the other. To what extent is an … individual’s trust driven by contemporaneous institutions and environmental conditions and to what extent is it determined by the …
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Institutions affect investment decisions, including investments in human capital. Hence institutions are relevant for … the allocation of talent. Good market-supporting institutions attract talent to productive value-creating activities … individuals are particularly sensitive in their career choices to the quality of institutions, and test these predictions on a …
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The rise of Asian regionalism and Sino-American rivalry are determining trends in the Asia-Pacific region. Asian economic indicators remain stable and growing even during the severe global crisis of 2008 and have become more and more comparable to those of developed countries. The current trend...
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institutions for political (democratic rules) and economic (free market entry) competitiveness. To analyze this relationship … economic institutions exert cumulative positive impact upon health (even if their separate effects are negative or …
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The efficiency of social reforms in different countries mostly depends on the extent to which they can be accepted by the population. However, even if problems are similar, the reasons may differ, which can make it difficult to apply existing laws of one state to another. Bribery is a typical...
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The objective of this research was to assess the mechanism through which the individual level components of social capital, that is, individuals‘ levels of trust, tolerance and civic identity affect their economic behavior. The sample of the study included 634 respondents aged 20 to 59. A...
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One of the attributes most consistently highlighted in the literature on frontier society is the tendency to spontaneous social organisation. However, despite the resilience of the ‘frontier thesis’ within sociology and political science, it has not been subject to a rigorous empirical...
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