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Exiting the middle-income trap entails costly improvements in state capacity. That deep economic integration induces powerful actors to support increasing state capacities remain underresearched. Here we ask: Under what conditions can deep economic integration yield increases in state capacity?...
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results highlight that a higher level of trust in school promotes one's competition, participation, and motivation in math …. However, this positive effect of trust maintains mainly in mixed-sex environments but not in single-sex competitions. The … trust effect is exhausted in gender-matching environments, probably because single-sex matches reduce unfairness caused by …
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computational experiments to study the roles of generalized trust and social control for the stability and efficiency of IVTS …. Previous literature was ambiguous with regard to: (i) how trust and control should be operationalized formally, (ii) which, if … experiments suggest answers to all these questions. We show that both trust and control are necessary, but not sufficient to …
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This paper reviews the literature on policies aiming to improve the rule of law and the operation of a legal system. It takes a bottom up perspective of clients seeking access to justice and uses transaction costs on the market for justice as a criterion to evaluate justice policies. Most...
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If justice is so dearly needed, why does it not emerge spontaneously? Socio-legal research shows how people shop for justice. They approach friends, advisers, lawyers, mediators, suppliers of legal information, local authorities, community leaders, priests, imams, arbiters, or judges in order to...
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', the Secretary-General of the United Nations, argued that the rule of law involves more than the state and its institutions …
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television in the formation of political consensus in Italy. Based on probit and instrumental variables estimates, we find trust … in television to be the most significant predictor of trust in the Italian prime minister. The latter is also strongly … and negatively correlated with trust in the judicial system and tolerance towards immigrants. …
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Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions … institutions and norms (such as corruption perceptions, average trust levels and various aspects of economic freedom) on social … trust. The results suggest that individual trust suffers in countries with high corruption, low trust and low legal quality …
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Does self-governance, a hallmark of democratic societies, foster or erode norms of generalized cooperation? Does this effect persist, and if so, why? I investigate these questions using a natural experiment in Switzerland. In the middle-ages, the absence of an heir resulted in the extinction of...
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