This study first uses a set of graphs and tables to present the pattern of democracy in the world, using the Gastil Index. Then a statistical analysis is conducted by two techniques: Regression techniques are used to analyze the effect on democracy of a handful of variables. It shows that...

Social capital is defined as mutual trust. It is related to production by a key hypothesis: social capital determines how easily people work together. An easy-to-use proxy (Putnam's Instrument) is the density of voluntary organizations. Social capital might be a new production factor which must...

A contract between a small country and a large organization is analyzed using an Edgeworth-Box model. The population of the country is divided into two groups: people and elite. The contract has two explicit parameters: an exchange of sovereignty and a net transfer. A small country is defined as...

Danish development aid is analyzed by visiting a sample of projects five years after their completion. The sample is stratified to nine countries chosen to be main, peaceful recipients in the main regions. The criterion of success is if the projects do what it is meant to. If we think the...

The largest and most altruistic development aid programs are the ones of a group of countries known as the Like-Minded Countries. The LMC's are the small rich NW-European countries and Canada. The LMC's have developed a distinct ?soft' aid ideology that differs from the ?hard' ideology of other...

The way 275 Danish municipalities organize 12 tasks shows a complex and changing pattern of market orientation. It is often discussed as an ideological issue; but we have failed to find a significant ideological factor in the pattern. However, factors belonging to four theories become...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Quality of Life in Two Different Good Societies: Denmark and Switzerland -- 2 Two Wealthy Economies and Their Development -- 3 Are the Standards of Living Similar or Dissimilar?- 4 Happiness in Denmark and Switzerland.- Part II: Two Models of Good...

Two main theories explain the relations between the three variables. The A-theory starts from the strong correlation between income and democracy, seeing income as the causal variable. It is the democratic transition, which is the political part of the theory of the grand transition. The...

The paper considers a two-sector economy with a constant population: The public sector, with stable productivity, and a private sector, with productivity growth. Baumol's law says that such an economy has no steady state. It is demonstrated what this means. Two attempts to uphold a policy that...

Meta-analysis studies a set of estimates of one parameter with three basic tools: The funnel diagram is the distribution of the estimates as a function of their precision; the funnel asymmetry test, FAT; and the meta average, where PET is an estimate. The FAT-PET MRA is a meta regression...