Many experiments have demonstrated the power of norm enforcement-peer monitoring and punishment-to maintain, or even increase, contributions in social dilemma settings, but little is known about the underlying norms that monitors use to make punishment decisions. Using a large sample of...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Comparison of agrarian structure and labour market mechanisms in Indonesia (Java) and Bangladesh - discusses social controls, labour relations and wage differentials affecting sharecroppers and landless rural workers, the position of rural area Elite, and the need to take...

D. L. KonstantinovskyThe author uses statistics and empirical data of sociological studies from the 1960s to the 2000s to show the influence of external factors (economical, political, demographical, and also social policy) on functioning of the school. The result is the sum of several...

Despite numerous challenges, since its independence, Uzbekistan, with the exception of the May 2005 Andijan events, has enjoyed extraordinary political stability and not recorded any considerable cases of interethnic or interfaith conflict, regime change or civil war, whereas neighboring...

Эффективность противодействия коррупции в России на современном этапе может обеспечить лишь комплексный подход, предполагающий согласованное воздействие на...

Рассмотрены основные направления осуществления общественного контроля в системе закупок товаров, работ, услуг для государственных и муниципальных нужд,...

This article contextualises the art practice of Beijing-based artist Liu Bolin and examines ways in which his artworks illuminate the sociopolitical conditions that regulate the everyday reality of underprivileged social groups amid China’s spectacular urban transformation in the 2000s. The...

The institute of social responsibility is regarded in the article as mandatory addition to market' institutes and to the institute of state power, because it reduces transaction costs in the socio-economic system by eliminating the relations of discrimination. The most important function of...

Social responsibility is not only the sphere of ethics, philosophy or moral, because the harm caused by the socially irresponsible conduct has fully material expression. Social responsibility implies hard limitations of process of stock accumulation, that is impossible without the mechanisms of...