This study examines how the historical state conditions long‐run development, using
Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong, centralized state …

Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses
on'democratic deficits', reflecting how far the perceived democratic performance of any state …

According to recent research, ethnoracial diversity negatively affects trust and social capital.
This article challenges the current conception and measurement of “diversity” and invites …

A vision of the future Internet is introduced in such a fashion that various computing devices
are connected together to form a network called Internet of Things (IoT). This network will …

Many theories of trust emphasize that trust is most relevant to behavior in situations involving
a conflict of interests. However, it is not clear how trust relates to behavior across situations …

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained
economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael …

Published in 1998. This text is designed as not only a summary of a number of years of
reflections by many different researchers, but also a guide for future research and for …

Citizen trust in government at the macro level has been studied by public administration
scholars for many years. To further our understanding, assessing trust at the meso level of …

We provide the first direct empirical evidence of the effect of CEO social capital on aggregate
corporate risk-taking. Our theory predicts that CEOs with high social capital display higher …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test a model of banking system trust as an
antecedent of bank trust and bank loyalty. Six determinants of trust and loyalty are included …