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State Capture and the Limits of Human Capital: Education and Institutional Quality in Post‐Socialist Europe

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
wiley   +1 more source

The Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED). [PDF]

Sci Data
Baron H, Blair RA, Gottlieb J, Paler L, Weaver JA, Yoel B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli, Alfons van Marrewijk, Arne Carlsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political participation in an electoral autocracy: latent profiles of efficacy, interest, ideology, and trust in Hungary. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Benza MA, Szabó ZP, Leikas S, Lönnqvist JE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Regulatory Costs Impede Financial Technology Gains

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While financial technology innovation lowers intermediation costs, regulatory frictions may prevent these gains from reaching long‐term investors and borrowers. Using variation in retail investor participation driven by state securities registration lapses in peer‐to‐peer lending, we demonstrate that regulatory frictions are associated with ...
Shyam Venkatesan, Brian Wolfe, Woongsun Yoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The overlooked threat of democratic neutrality in the USA. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav
Hall MEK, Leigh BT, Solomon BC.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Vision to Practice: How Sociotechnical Imaginaries Influence Municipal Healthcare Control

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital technologies influence social and organizational structures, materializing visions of desirable futures that both authorize and constrain how societies and organizations are organized, and how control is exercised. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS), this paper examines how sociotechnical imaginaries of “modern and ...
Roy‐Ivar Andreassen, Per Ståle Knardal, Hakim Lyngstadås, Charlotte Morland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The electoral choice context and support for democratic norms. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Huang K, Lovett M, Helmke G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Interpreting and Enacting the Sustainable Development Goals in Local Governments: Politicians’ and Managers’ Sensemaking and Sensegiving

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines how sensemaking and sensegiving processes shape the ways in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) become meaningful and actionable in local governments. Drawing on a multiple case study of three Italian cities, it explores how politicians and managers engage with the SDGs.
Manuela Macinati, Francesca Manes‐Rossi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political grief and ambiguous loss in a threatened democracy: psychological distress and civic responses during Israel's judicial reform. [PDF]

Front Psychiatry
Yehene E, Ohayon S.
europepmc   +1 more source