Amartya Sen's writings have articulated the importance of human agency, and identified the
need for information on agency freedom to inform our evaluation of social arrangements …

Since it was first published in 1991, The Ethics Challenge in Public Service has become a
classic text used by public managers and in public management programs across the …

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Despite a great variety of theoretical approaches, empirical analyses of social capital are
surprisingly similar. Virtually all of them treat membership in voluntary associations as the …

Since the" third wave" of democratization began in 1974, more than eighty countries have
made significant progress toward democracy by holding free and competitive elections and …

В настоящей книге представлена пересмотренная версия теории модернизации,
интегрирующая социально-экономическое развитие, изменения в сфере культуры и …

This article argues that cultural change is roughly predictable: to a large extent, it is shaped
by a few variables included in a model of cultural modernization that is presented here. The …

This article examines democratization as an aspect of human development where: human
development is meant to proceed as people attain greater autonomous choice in shaping …

In der Transitionsforschung besteht die Auffassung, dass Bevölkerungseinstellungen für die
Konsolidierung von Demokratien wichtig sind, nicht aber für den Prozess der …

Julia Adams and Ann Shola Orloff's insightful critical perspective in the first issue of this
journal makes several important points about the relationship between modernization and …