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Instability, economic stagnation and the role of islam in the North Caucasus
Dobler, Constanze - 2011
history ; religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486280
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Economic growth in the post-socialist Russian Federation after 1991 : the role of Institutions
Dobler, Constanze; Hagemann, Harald - 2011
The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia, a "big bang" approach was applied. That is to say, transition was conducted all of a sudden, omitting important underlying reforms. This practice should function as a shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486307
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The long-term impact of religion on social capital : lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia
Mikula, Stepan; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248714
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Norm prevalence and interdependence: evidence from a large-scale historical survey of German speaking villages
Holler, Radost; Schäfer, Paul - 2021
villages with a different majority religion, and villages with more within-village social gatherings; (2) villages with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663046
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Religion, ideology and fertility
Kumo, Kazuhiro; Perugini, Cristiano - 2023
In this paper, we investigate how attachment to religion is connected to conservative gender role beliefs and to what …-progressive political regimes and ideology can weaken this chain of effects, by eroding either the way religion shapes gender roles or the … religion is in both groups associated with more traditional gender roles; however, the link is significantly weaker for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281061
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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Gatti, Fabio - 2022
Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405131
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Economic freedom and religion : an empirical investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515355
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The long-run weight of communism or the weight of long-run history?
Roland, Gérard - 2010
This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662196
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From the death of god to the rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014414204
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From the death of God to the rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419468