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Social Capital and the Dynamics of Trust in Government
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the relative contributions of both government performance and social capital at the macro level to explain the macro variation in trust and find that social capital appears to be the force which accounts for the decline in trust over the last 40 years.
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International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance
TL;DR: In this article, international law, development and Third World Resistance are discussed. But the focus is on developing countries and not the Third World resistance, as is the case in this paper.
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The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others.
TL;DR: Evidence is presented which suggests that key processes of social status differentiation, affecting health and numerous other social outcomes, take place at the societal level, and that many of the problems related to low social status may be amenable to changes in income distribution.
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Net National Product, Wealth, and Social Well-Being
Partha Dasgupta,Karl-Göran Mäler +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that NNP, properly defined, can be used to evaluate economic policies, but also show that it should not be used in any of its more customary roles, such as in making intertemporal and cross-country comparisons of social well-being.
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What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy
TL;DR: The notion of political corruption has been defined as departures by public officials from public rules, norms, and laws for the sake of private gain this article, which works well within bureaucratic contexts with well-defined offices, purposes, and norms of conduct.