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This chapter summarizes the results of 15 studies that were conducted on the relationship between confidence in government and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies
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This chapter summarizes the results of 7 studies that were conducted on the relationship between confidence in the police and attitude toward bribery. Additional summaries will be published in the second volume of this series, The Ethics of Bribery: Country Studies
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Generalized morality reflects ethical norms in society about the inappropriateness of behaviors that can cause harm to … others. Generalized morality may be an important factor affecting the economic performance of countries. An indicator of … generalized morality is constructed from data from the World Values Survey. One question examined is whether generalized morality …
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This article establishes that there are significant social influences on the decisions made by individuals about whether to trust others. These social interactions effects may arise from exogenous-environmental characteristics or from endogenous effects that make people conform to the particular...
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Russian Abstract Предлагается обоснование применимости индикаторов доверия государства к гражданскому обществу, т. е веры государства в лояльность к нему общества и в...
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Mancur Olson and Robert Putnam provide two conflicting views on the effect of involvement with voluntary associations on their members. Putnam argues that associations instill in their members habits of cooperation, solidarity and public spiritedness. Olson emphasizes the tendency of groups to...
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This paper analyzes the dynamic stability of moral codes in a two population trust game. Guided by a moral code, members of one population, the Trustors, are willing to punish members of the other population, the Trustees, who defect. Under replicator dynamics, adherence to the moral code has...
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People are shown to be “more (less) trusting as others are on average more (less) trusting” in a binary-choice-with-social-interactions model that is estimated using cross-section data from more than sixty countries, with mean trust as an explanatory variable. These endogenous effects...
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Humans act based on the ideas they adopt and apply to circumstance with the intensity of action derived from the associated emotions. It follows that in any society the presentation of the ideas to citizens a major driver of citizen opinion and hence a major driver of social development. After...
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During the Nineties Italian politics underwent major changes. Following the uncovering and prosecuting of systemic corruption, the current political establishment was wiped out. Further, the system of representation at both the national and local levels underwent a significant transformation...
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