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Strategic behavior and organizational structure in religions

Wittman, Donald A. - 2012

the context of the small (religious institutions). --religious organizations ; autocracy ; age ; organizational structure …Religions are organized in a variety of ways. They may resemble an elected autocracy, a parliamentary democracy, or … institutionalized and when the age of a person may be an important strategic factor in choosing a leader. I am thus able to explain what …

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Political leadership and the quality of public goods and services: Does religion matter?

Prinz, Aloys L.; Sander, Christian J. - In: Economics of Governance 21 (2020) 4, pp. 299-334

Despite some indications to the contrary, religion still plays an important role in contemporary society. In this paper, the association between religion and the quality of public goods and services, measured by the so-called “delivery quality” index of the Worldwide Governance Indicators...

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Do bishops matter for politics? Evidence from Italy

Lanzara, Gianandrea; Lazzaroni, Sara; Masella, Paolo; … - 2023

This paper studies whether and how religious leaders affect politics. Focusing on Italian dioceses in the period from 1948 to 1992, we find that the identity of the bishop in office explains a significant amount of the variation in the vote share for the Christian Democracy party (DC). This...

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Skewed norms under peer pressure: Formation and collapse

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014

This paper shows that peer pressure may lead to dynamic convergence to a norm that is skewed with respect to preferences in society, yet is endogenously upheld by the population. Moreover, a skewed norm will often be more sustainable than a representative norm. This may explain the skewness of...

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Skewed norms under peer pressure : formation and collapse

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2014 - This version June 2014

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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Do bishops matter for politics? : evidence from Italy

Lanzara, Gianandrea; Lazzaroni, Sara; Masella, Paolo; … - 2023

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Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper offers the first systematic evidence on this topic by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America,...

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Faith and assimilation: Italian immigrants in the US

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

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Economic Freedom and Religion: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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