We model a firm in an institutional market setting, consisting of a production technology and its governance. The … governance consists of a hierarchical firm structure, a cost efficiency parameter,and an internal pay system. The depth of the …

general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …

about procedural legitimacy? Analyzing national survey data on China, this study finds that governance procedures affect the … legitimacy of subnational levels of governing, if not necessarily that of the national level. Good governance contributes to …-Wen era. Despite low priority and constrained governance reforms, the main legitimation strategy in the Hu-Wen era remained …