In this paper, we analyze the effects of religious identity - defined both as personal identification with a religious tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods - on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether citizens belonging to collectivist rather than...

In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...

In this paper, I argue that religion matters for the emergence of democracies and dictatorships. Religion is defined as a stochastically set demand for public goods. Different types of religious collectives reflect different tradeoffs between centralized resource distribution and market rewards....

Diese Arbeit besteht aus drei Aufsätzen. Der erste Aufsatz („Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Südosteuropa: Von der Transformation bis zur EU-Integration“) erörtert die wirtschaftlichen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen in Südosteuropa und die damit einhergehenden Entwicklungen auf den...