This paper argues that the political economy and neo-institutionalistliteratures are now at a critical juncture. The traditional emphasis on comparative studies of different models of capitalism may in fact be giving way to longitudinal analyses of long-term trends common to all advanced...

Since the early Eighties, "Stato e Mercato" has been the promoter, inItaly and in Europe, of the development of an original analytical approach called "Comparative Political Economy". A current of studies that analyses the relationship between economic and socio-political phenomena and their...

The relationship between capitalism and democracy has been an extensively studied and "essentially contested" one. The essay analyzes this potential relationship by defining and operationalizing the variables related to the concepts of Variety of Capitalism (VOC) and Type of Democracy (TOD). The...

This paper takes a view of the history of "Stato e Mercato" as a journal, reconstructing how different topics and issues have been studied over time. What has been specific to "Stato e Mercato" is a sociological and political science approach topolitical economy that considers the role of both...

In the program that is featured in the poster, participants were members of the Nevada National Guard’s Agribusiness Development Team (ADT). The program consisted of four days of training to develop an overall understanding of agriculture in the U.S. and world. The classroom training...

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...

Agricultural productivity is known to decline with farm size in many developing countries. This may be a result of market imperfections, such as missing rural labor markets. On the other hand, there may be economies of scale in farming, due, for instance, to the importance of lumpy inputs....