Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic … productivity, cultural beliefs and institutions. In our model, production shocks that benefit one sector of the economy may induce …

institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

democracy than South Korean subjects. Attitudes toward institutions are more strongly associated with the experimental behaviors … to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four …

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis …

satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My … and may have even reversed it in the post-crisis years. As institutions and macroeconomic conditions continue to improve …

role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of … individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … variable of the model along with formal political institutions. We focus on two agencies of political socialization: the family …

inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower. …

institutions. We bolster these baseline findings using an instrumental-variables strategy exploiting regional democratization waves … and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display stronger support for democratic … and focusing on immigrants' exposure to democracy before migration. In all cases, the timing and nature of the effects are …

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do … institutions. When new technologies emerge, uncertainty results from a lack of understanding how the technology will fit with … prevailing ideologies and institutions. This uncertainty discourages investment in institutions and the cultural capital …