stickiness of democracy depends on a combination of causal factors, including underlying political culture (Boettke et al …Structural explanation of political development offers a finite set of factors that cause democracy to consolidate or …

a tumultuous half-century in which the region went from backwater to breadbasket, from dictatorship to democracy, and …

this analysis. Secondly, regardless of econometric specification and country sample, democracy is positively and …

and civic culture differs across communities. We also find that extension of voting rights to non-elites results in a …

The public value of history, culture and heritage interacts in complex ways with the private ownership of so many of …

measures and business practices in sixty two countries. GLOBE study’s nine dimensions of culture’s scores are regressed along … scores on democracy, religiousness, GDP, corruption, and country risk. The results indicate that in-group collectivism and … humane orientation are good predictors of democracy, religion, and corruption; performance orientation and uncertainty …

The public value of history, culture and heritage interacts in complex ways with the private ownership of so many of …

situation is social cohesion, which however is incompatible with the mentality of our civilization. Culture, depended upon the …

The concept 'society' in social theory has generally presupposed notions of cultural cohesion and social integration … major challenge for social theory. This paper explores changing conceptions of the social in recent social theory and … case is made for a discursive understanding of democracy and knowedge. …