Several scholars have suggested that honesty, honor, fairness and other traditional values play a vital role in making capitalism and democracy function (Fukuyama 1995; Zak 2008). Others have recognized that capitalism and democracy reward greed and reinforce antisocial manipulators (Hayes-Roth 2011a). Some believe that enterprises can reconstruct themselves profitably around the principles of ...

This article outlines the historical distinctiveness of feminist foreign policy (FFP) Sweden has pursued since 2014. To highlight particularity current FFP, we make use two methodological moves: de-framing and counterpoint. De-framing helps us importance for FFP a moment in beginning 1990s, when feminism naturalising capitalist arrangements came to ascendency both transnationally Sweden. Counte...

For more than a century social scientists have grappled with the question of the role of religion and values in the creation of modern capitalism and democracy. Although it is only in the past twenty years that sociologists have begun to use the phrase “social capital” to describe religion’s role in these developments, the concept was implicit in the pioneering analyses of the great German theo...

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985-1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a new ...

Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or capitalism liberal democracy ...