European parliaments--a blueprint for Western Europe's institutional framework that promoted state-formation and economic …

ownership shows parallel trends of decentralization and indirect control over time. Mixed ownership is associated with higher …

Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and …