We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …

forward many unconventional point of view, and it has contributed visionary ideas for the research on China's economy. It …Chapter 1 The Spreading of Stalin's Issues on The Socialist Economy in the Soviet Union in China in the 1950s and the … Started with the Issue on Distribution according to Performance in 1977 and 1978 -- Chapter 7 The Issue of the Role of the Law …

1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe … collapse of communist party rule in countries of the Soviet-led Eastern bloc. Since then, the post-communist countries of … Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe have tied their post-communist transition to deep integration into the West …

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … technological progress in a pre-industrial economy that emphasizes the person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge. The young … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans …

2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities,institutions of applied higher education and research …

research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … research …

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands …