The purpose of this article is to investigate the prospects for entry into an existing network in the telecommunication …

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions …, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of … elections. These results support the view that social capital complements democratic institutions such as elections. …

We propose a general theory that explains the extent of the state and accounts for related institutions as byproducts …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

public input character of physical infrastructure and institutions, and uses an O-ring production function to model the … improvements are likely to be modest relative to the scale of impact implied by aggregate-level studies of the role of institutions …

excessively focused on original colonial institutions and their lasting effects, and for neglecting to some extent how these … institutions changed in relation to a profound transformation in international relations and technological environments, as …