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 …