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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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China passed a law of trusts in 2001 intending it to be useful to financial market participants. Drawing heavily from literature on economic institutions and economic development, this article assesses the potential success of the trust's becoming institutionalized in China. The conclusion is...
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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...
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