Political culture and democracy

R Inglehart, C Welzel - New directions in comparative politics, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The political culture school argues that the values, beliefs, and skills of mass publics have
an important impact on politics in general and on democratic institutions in particular. The …

[HTML][HTML] The SDGs in middle-income countries: Setting or serving domestic development agendas? Evidence from Ecuador

P Horn, J Grugel - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
The expansion of middle-income countries in the global South is now widely acknowledged
as significant for international development research and practice. But, as yet, scholars have …

Freedom and happiness in nations: A research synthesis

A Abdur Rahman, R Veenhoven - Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2018 - Springer
Freedom is highly valued, but there are limits to the amount of freedom a society can allow
its members. This begs the question of how much freedom is too much. The answers to that …

Agency, human dignity, and subjective well-being

DA Hojman, Á Miranda - World Development, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last decades, our understanding of human well-being and development has shifted
from a traditional focus on income and consumption toward a richer multidimensional …

Do anti-poverty programs sway voters? Experimental evidence from Uganda

C Blattman, M Emeriau, N Fiala - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
High-impact policies may not lead to support for the political party that introduces them. In
2008, Uganda's government encouraged groups of youth to submit proposals to start …

The index of emancipative values: Measurement model misspecifications

B Sokolov - American Political Science Review, 2018 - cambridge.org
This article reports evidence of misspecification of the measurement model for the index of
emancipative values, a value construct used as a key explanatory variable in many …

Assessing corporate environmental issues in international companies: A study of explanatory factors

I Gallego‐Álvarez - Business Strategy and the Environment, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental issues have become increasingly important for companies and society in
general, and information about them is of concern, to the extent that many companies have …

Uncovering CSR meaning networks: A cross-national comparison of Turkey and Slovenia

U Golob, S Turkel, L Kronegger, E Uzunoglu - Public relations review, 2018 - Elsevier
This study addressed an important question about the meaning of corporate social
responsibility (CSR), and how it is measured. Based on a comparison of the meaning …

Science to the people: A 32-nation survey

K Makarovs, P Achterberg - Public Understanding of Science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we analyze Special Eurobarometer (2010) data via multilevel regression
modeling and answer two questions:(a) How a country's democratization level is related to …

Tolerance, agglomeration, and enterprise innovation performance: a multilevel analysis of Latin American regions

J Schmutzler, E Lorenz - Industrial and Corporate Change, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In this article we examine the effect regional tolerance has on the innovation performance of
firms in regions of seven Latin American countries. We hypothesize that tolerance positively …