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The political economy of the middle class in the Dominican Republic : individualization of public goods, lack of institutional trust and weak collective action
Sánchez, Miguel Eduardo; Senderowitsch, Roby - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559883
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The Political Economy of the Middle Class in the Dominican Republic : Individualization of Public Goods, Lack of Institutional Trust and Weak Collective Action
Sánchez, Miguel Eduardo - 2012
This paper tries to uncover some of the hidden factors behind poor public service delivery in the Dominican Republic. By looking at three sector cases, education, health and electricity, it is possible to observe that in this setting of low quality of public services the "middle class" is opting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395335
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The moldable young : how institutions impact social trust
Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016
Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536000
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In Europe we trust?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Haas, Jasmina - 2016
The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the EU. Brexit has reinforced the centrifugal forces in the EU. To counter this threat the EU needs to engage in unpopular measures as they infringe on the Member States'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516715
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Great expectations : the persistent effect of institutions on culture
Litina, Anastasia - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413099
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Who disapproves of TTIP? : multiple distrust in companies and political institutions
Pitlik, Hans - 2016 - This version: Thursday, 03 March 2016
for attitude formation concerning economic regulation. We use data from a Eurobarometer Survey conducted in November 2014 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495139
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Social Trust, Normative Expectations, and Institutional Confidence
Grönlund, Kimmo - 2010
The present paper analyzes determinants of confidence in public institutions. In both theoretical literature and … empirical research, a link between social trust and institutional confidence has been established. The present paper casts … determinant of institutional confidence proves to be satisfaction with policy outputs. Institutional trust is in general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140567
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Lustration and Trust in Central and East Europe : Assessing the Impact of Lustration on Trust in Public Institutions and National Government
Horne, Cynthia - 2010
Lustration is alternately theorized and anecdotally alleged to either undermine or contribute to the democratic transitions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by supporting or undermining trust in public institutions, and by extension trust in national government. Using quantitative data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140823
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Virtual Institutions
Orman, Levent V. - 2014
New information technologies have created new possibilities in resolving long-standing debates in social organization. The debates involving buying versus leasing, business versus government, and markets versus hierarchies captured intellectual imagination, and dominated public consciousness for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069764
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It's a Matter of Confidence : Institutions, Government Stability and Economic Outcomes
Bettarelli, Luca - 2015
The effect of constitutional structures (such as the effect of a presidential vs. a parliamentary system) over policy outcomes has been widely studied in the economic literature. In this paper, we investigate whether stable parliamentary systems and unstable parliamentary systems behave...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015489