This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically …-legislative institutions are distinguished. This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the … (1999) and Stutzer (1999) this paper includes the political institutions of the so-called Landsgemeinde cantons. Description …

institutions, geography, and integration on per capita income. Concerning theoretical reasoning, emphasis is on the emergence of … institutions and their effect on economic growth. However, institutions can appear in different shapes since political, legal, and …, a differentiation between formal and informal institutions is made. Informal institutions are defined as beliefs …

institutions, geography, and integration on per capita income. Concerning theoretical reasoning, emphasis is on the emergence of … institutions and their effect on economic growth. However, institutions can appear in different shapes since political, legal, and …, a differentiation between formal and informal institutions is made. Informal institutions are defined as beliefs …

institutions, geography, and integration on per capita income. Concerning theoretical reasoning, emphasis is on the emergence of … institutions and their effect on economic growth. However, institutions can appear in different shapes since political, legal, and …, a differentiation between formal and informal institutions is made. Informal institutions are defined as beliefs …

During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and … military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Street protests continued to play an important role during this power struggle …. We show that these protests are associated with differential stock market returns for firms connected to the three groups …

to be thought of as extra-economic dimensions such as subjective forms of poverty, quality of institutions (especially … public institutions) and type of political regime or, more generally speaking, the society’s system of values. To meet this … qualité des institutions (notamment publiques) et le type de régime politique ou plus généralement le système de valeurs de la …