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A Stage Model of Developing an Inclusive Community
Vaughn, Billy E.; Mlekov, Katarina - 2003
The Community Inclusion model described in this paper characterizes the stages through which a diverse group of people … the assessment of a community's current stage of inclusion, and determining the interventions needed to address lack of … inclusion. Examples from Sweden (EU) and the United States (USA) will be used to demonstrate how the model works. Particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325044
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A Stage Model of Developing an Inclusive Community
Vaughn, Billy E.; Mlekov, Katarina - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
The Community Inclusion model described in this paper characterizes the stages through which a diverse group of people … the assessment of a community’s current stage of inclusion, and determining the interventions needed to address lack of … inclusion. Examples from Sweden (EU) and the United States (USA) will be used to demonstrate how the model works. Particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385413
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Does it matter how people speak?
Chong, Alberto (contributor) - 2006
Language serves two key functions. It enables communication between agents, which allows for the establishment and operation of formal and informal institutions. It also serves a less obvious function, a reassuring quality more closely related to issues linked with trust, social capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003775741
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Family ties and political participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832188
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Social capital, Chinese style : individualism, relational collectivism and the cultural embeddedness of the institutions-performance link
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2009
China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World Values Survey data depicts China to be a high-trust, achievement oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures of rampant corruption and abuses of power. I argue that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893084
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Culture and cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974191
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The impact of institutions, culture, and religion on per capita income
Dobler, Constanze - 2009
Despite many approaches of neoclassical and endogenous growth theory, economists still face problems in explaining the reasons for income differences between countries. Institutional economics and the deep determinants of growth literature try to depart from pure economic facts to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958864
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Cultural formation of preferences and assimilation of cultural groups
Pichler, Michael M. - 2010 - First Draft: August 2010
Based on the cultural formation of continuous preferences framework of Pichler [16], this paper analyzes the evolution of preferences and behavior in a two cultural groups setting. We show that the qualitative dynamic properties depend crucially on what parents perceive as the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736544
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Cultural identity, mobility, and decentralization
Schild, Christopher-Johannes; Wrede, Matthias - 2010
Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ("social capital"). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962969
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The economics of cultural formation of preferences
Pichler, Michael M. - 2010
This paper introduces a generalized representation of the formation of continuous preferences (which can reflect different intensities). The preference intensity that a child adopts is formed as the collective outcome of all role models for preference intensities - which are derived from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003964867