into „Westernization“, the transfer of Western institutions to backward countries. As the title suggests, the paper deals … with the institutional problems of such a transfer of institutions, and with the constraints, imposed on the key actors of … congruence, or the „elective affinity“, between the models of power relationships on which imported and traditional institutions …

Recent empirical studies claim that, in addition to levels of corruption, investors are deterred by its … unpredictability. I claim instead that it is petty corruption that deters investors. I employ seven subcomponents of corruption for a … this data depicts a grand, political type, embracing corruption in government policymaking and in judicial decisions as …