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Social Capital and Political Accountability
Nannicini, Tommaso; Stella, Andrea; Tabellini, Guido; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In this paper, we empirically investigate a channel through which social capital may improve economic wellbeing and the functioning of institutions: political accountability. The main idea is that voters who share norms of generalized morality demand higher standards of behavior on their elected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465520
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Cultural Diversity and Conflict in Multicultural Cities
Patel, Alaknanda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
, various caste groups within the Hindus and migrant workers ensured a diversity of culture and lifestyle. This is especially … economically vibrant state with Baroda as its pride. Employment opportunities attracted fresh migration to the city. Despite … of an unbelievabld dimension broke out between Hindus and Muslims. This was not a conflict arising out of migration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230926
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Post-Communist City on its Way from Grey to Colourful: The Case Study from Slovakia
Bitusikova, Alexandra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The paper is a case study of the city of Banska Bystrica in Slovakia in the light of political, socio-economic and cultural changes. It discusses urban diversity and integrity from an anthropological qualitative perspective. On the example of three different historical periods (1918 – 1948:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385428
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Citizenship Laws and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
world starting from the 19th century. The impact of the original, exogenously-given laws on international migration proves … insignificant for the early, mass migration waves, which confirm to be driven primarily by economic incentives. Postwar convergence … of citizenship laws is determined by legal tradition and international migration, but also by border stability, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423091
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The Fight Against Geography: Malaria and Economic Development in Italian Regions
Percoco, Marco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of “intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828398
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Mapping Diversity in Social History
Sori, Ercole - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
-of-caste in India. With the end of slavery the European feudal society adopted a functionalist tripartition based on priests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230802
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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood
May, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385332
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A Biologist’s View of Individual Cultural Identity for the Study of Cities
Pearce, Richard - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
an individual, and Culture in a community. A mechanism is proposed by which social attachments between individuals lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385340
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Cultural Rights and Civic Virtue
Ford, Richard Thompson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
This paper addresses the potential tension between two broadly stated policy objectives: the preservation of distinctive cultural traditions, often through the mechanism of formal legal rights, and the fostering of civic virtue, a sense of local community and the advancement of common civic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385343
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Bio-Ecological Diversity vs. Socio-Economic Diversity: A Comparison of Existing Measures
Maignan, Carole; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pinelli, Dino; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385349