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Die Rolle staatlicher Institutionen in asiatischen Innovationssystemen
Erber, Georg; Hagemann, Harald - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 2, pp. 95-112
Das Wirtschaftswachstum eines Landes hängt immer stärker von dessen Innovationsfähigkeit ab. Japan, Südkorea und die … vorgenommen. Dabei ist in Japan zu beobachten, dass über ein Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) unter dem Vorsitz …The economic growth of a country depends more and more on its capacity to innovate. Japan, South Korea and the P. R. of …
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Populism in the liberal democracies of East Asia: South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan
Mosler, Hannes B. (contributor) - 2023
Asian liberal democracies of South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Each paper in this collection engages with specific cases …
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Rule of law, institutional quality and information
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2008
The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion on institutional quality is explored using a model...
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Unique equilibrium in a model of rule of law
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2006
This paper presents a model of Rule of Law in which a continuum of agents plays against the State for the appropriation of the economic assets of a stylised economy. The model shows how each agent can either challenge the State or acquiesce, with the latter having the choice of either protecting...
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Rekonvaleszenz der Demokratie? Die Erholung bürgerlicher Freiheitsrechte im internationalen Vergleich
Kneip, Sascha; Wagner, Aiko - In: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 11 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23
Nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 wurden in einigen westlichen Demokratien bürgerliche Freiheitsrechte durch eine verschärfte Sicherheitsgesetzgebung empfindlich beschnitten. Allerdings zeigen sich im folgenden Jahrzehnt deutliche Erholungseffekte, die wiederum zwischen den Ländern...
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Divestment: Fallstricke einer Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie
Thießen, Friedrich - 2021
Rechtsstaat beleuchtet. Es zeigt sich: Betroffene Unternehmen weichen dem Divestment-Druck aus. Kritische Assets werden in …
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Democratization, quality of institutions and economic growth
Polterovich, Victor; Popov, Vladimir - 2007
There are two innovations in the paper as compared to the previous literature on democracy and growth. First, we consider not only the level of democracy, but also changes in this level in the 1970s-1990s as measured by increments of Freedom House political rights indices. Second, the...
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Does Religiosity Promote Property Rights and the Rule of Law?
Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2012
Social and cultural determinants of economic institutions and outcomes have come to the forefront of economic research. We introduce religiosity, measured as the share for which religion is important in daily life, to explain institutional quality in the form of property rights and the rule of...
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Political and Judicial Checks on Corruption: Evidence from American State Governments
Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2005
The paper investigates the effects of checks and balances on corruption. Within a presidential system, effective separation of powers is achieved under divided government, with the executive and legislative branches being controlled by different political parties. When government is unified, no...
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Free to Trust? Economic Freedom and Social Capital
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2005
We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power of economic institutions, we use newer data, we incorporate more countries, and we use instrumental variables to handle the causality problem. A central result is that legal...
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