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The political economy of trust : institutions, interests and inter-firm cooperation in Italy and Germany /
"Trust and cooperation are at the heart of the two most important approaches to comparative politics - rational choice and political culture. Yet we know little about the relationship of trust to political institutions. This book sets out a rationalist theory of how informal institutions can af...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Trust and cooperation are at the heart of the two most important approaches to comparative politics - rational choice and political culture. Yet we know little about the relationship of trust to political institutions. This book sets out a rationalist theory of how informal institutions can affect trust without reducing it to fully determined expectations. It then shows how this theory can be applied to comparative political economy, in particular to explaining inter-firm cooperation in industrial districts, geographical areas of intense small firm collaboration. The book compares trust and cooperation in two prominent districts in the literature, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany It also sets out and applies a theory of how national informal institutions may change as a result of changes in global markets, and it shows how similar mechanisms may explain persistent distrust among Sicilian mafiosi."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511596537 0511596537 9780521886499 052188649X 9780511596933 0511596936 1107200709 9781107200708 1107404304 9781107404304 1282303260 9781282303263 9786612303265 6612303263 0511593791 9780511593796 0511592868 9780511592867 0511595727 9780511595721 |