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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2008
Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public?s monitoring ability. Still, although extensive voter involvement may put...
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Political socialization in flux? Linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement
Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288231
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Corporate governance and employee power in the boardroom : an applied game theoretical analysis
Balsmeier, Benjamin (contributor) - 2011
The discussion about employee representation on supervisory boards has received much attention from scholars and politicians around the world. We provide new insights to this ongoing debate by employing power indices from game theory to examine the "real" power of employees on boards and its...
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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019
institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120010
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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020
expresses trust in management coincide with an improved financial situation if not higher productivity growth. Mutual distrust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294769
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Social Capital and the Willingness to Become Self-Employed : Is There a Difference between Women and Men?
Moog, Petra M.; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2006
This article studies the role of social capital in the occupational choice process involving whether to become self-employed or not. Although the decision to become self-employed has itself been analyzed frequently, social capital as an important explanatory variable has often been neglected. We...
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Vertrauen und Sozialkapital an einer wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität der Bundeswehr München und in Deutschland: Eine empirische Studie
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reidelhuber, Martin - 2007
academic team, composed of Friedrich L. Sell and Martin Reidelhuber, worked on the theoretical basics of "trust" and "social … "trust" and "social capital" among the students who responded. Also, we could compare many of our results with the results …: Both interrogated groups apparently have more trust in abstract (governmental and non-governmental) institutions than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296882
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The economic costs of mass surveillance : insights from Stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308454
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Social capital and political institutions : evidence that democracy fosters trust
Ljunge, Martin - 2013
This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with … country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a …
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