Just as the Chinese economy has accelerated in unprecedented fashion over the last thirty-five years the Chinese government has implemented a massive expansion of Chinese law, most of which is related to the creation of a market economy. Almost the entire Chinese legal system has been created...

This study presents evidence about relations between national culture and social institutions. We operationalize culture with data on cultural dimensions for over 50 nations adopted from cross-cultural psychology and generate testable hypotheses about three basic social norms of governance: the...