Private-order market institutions founded on trust-based relational contracts suffer adverse selection and moral hazard problems, while public-order market institutions have a limited capacity to enforce contracts. We model agent selection between contract enforcement institutions and demonstrate that the state’s contract enforcement capacity is complementary to private-order contract enforceme...

A touch of impatience can be discerned amongst realistically oriented colleagues in this series of essays: formal philosophers and economists have injected a certain a priori and deductive element into the discussion of trust. The description of the manner in which trust and hence economic vitality were deliberately destroyed by Neapolitan political authority is a welcome corrective (Pagden, th...

Abstract A great deal of experimental research has focused on how political incivility affects ordinary citizens. common finding is that reduces trust. Effects participation have also been investigated, but seem less consistent across studies. The results a systematic review and meta-analysis, including total 24 manuscripts containing 35 studies, revealed the estimated effect trust was signific...

Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about political processes, and to engage the political process more effectively as a result of their exposure to donor-sponsored civic education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a good time to take stock of wh...

This article examines the effects of migration experience on political attitudes in Central and Eastern European countries. The rationale for this quest is the hypothesis that contact with democratic contexts translates into democratic political attitudes, for which evidence is so far inconclusive. In this article, we are interested to see whether migrants returning from Western countries displ...

The penetration of PKI technology in the market is moving slowly due to interoperability concerns. Main causes are not technical but political and social since there is no trust development model that appropriately deals with multidomain PKIs. We propose a new architecture that on one hand considers that trust is not an homogeneous property but tied to a particular relation, and on the other ha...

Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about political processes, and to engage the political process more effectively as a result of their exposure to donor-sponsored civic education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a good time to take stock of wh...

Municipal mergers are typically contentious and polarizing issues among both citizens politicians. In deciding on these, municipal-level referendums often commissioned by municipal councils. Referendums, though, also per se processes that only exacerbate an already issue. Adding deliberation to referendum has been shown in previous studies be a more democratically sustainable process than mere ...

the aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of modern political marketing tools on national cohesion. in this study, researchers sought to study the concept of these variables in case of recognizing the relationship between them. this study has been in done in 6th region of tehran. for collecting data, a survey method has been used which its construct and content reliabilities were tested. i...