Angel Cognition and Active Involvement in BA Groups: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wirtz ◽  
Christophe Bonnet ◽  
Laurence Cohen ◽  
Vincenzo Capizzi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Cross Country

Institutions and development: the primacy of microanalysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
MWANGI S. KIMENYI
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Policy Relevance ◽  
Microeconomic Analysis ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Economic Development Theory ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract:In recent years, there have been major advances in the empirical analysis of the link between institutions and development. However, a number of methodological problems – both theoretical and empirical – remain unresolved and have been well articulated by Ha-Joon Chang in his article ‘Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy and History’. These problems raise valid concerns about the policy relevance of the evidence arising from the studies. A more reliable approach to study the link between institutions and development and overcome the inherent problems of cross-country empirical analysis is to direct focus to microeconomic analysis of institutions. Such an approach avoids ideologically driven normative judgments about the superiority of particular institutional arrangements and also offers a more credible and tractable avenue to investigate institutional change.

Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Government Transparency and Citizens’ Political Efficacy: A Multilevel Empirical Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cicatiello ◽  
Elina De Simone ◽  
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Government Transparency ◽  
Mixed Effects Modeling ◽  
International Social Survey Programme ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
International Social

Using cross-country data from the Citizenship database of the 2004 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) and relying on multilevel mixed-effects modeling, we investigate the link between government transparency and citizens’ external political efficacy. Results indicate that transparency enhances the perception of institutions’ responsiveness to citizens’ actions, but also highlight that this effect is mediated by citizens’ level of education. In particular, while for better educated people the magnitude of government transparency’s effect on citizens’ external efficacy is substantial, the same effect is negligible for less educated citizens who appear to be “lost in transparency.”

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