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==Index and Glossary==
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].


See also the  [[Politics/Index|'''index to the politics articles ''']].


[[User:Nick_Gardner#Methodology|methodology]]


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|"''The European Union is something ...
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights.''"


Low levels of social capital lead to a number of political dysfunctions, which have
:Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating  President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
been extensively documented. Following Tocqueville's analysis of France, many observers
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noted how administrative centralization has led to an excessively rigid and unresponsive
political system, one that can be changed only through antisystemic upsurges such as the
evenements of 1968.7 Low levels of social capital have been linked to an inefficient local
government in southern Italy, as well as to the region's pervasive corruption (Banfield, 1958;
Putnam, 1993). In many Latin American societies, a narrow radius of trust produces a twotier
moral system, with good behavior reserved for family and personal friends, and a
decidedly lower standard of behavior in the public sphere. This serves as a cultural
foundation for corruption, which is often regarded as a legitimate way of looking after one's
family.
It is of course also possible to have too much of a good thing. One person's civic
engagement is another's rent-seeking; much of what constitutes civil society can be described
as interest groups trying to divert public resources to their favored causes, whether sugar-beet
farming, women's health care, or the protection of biodiversity. The public choice literature
has analyzed the baleful consequences of rent-seeking for modern democracies at great
length; Mancur Olson (1982) has argued that Britain's long-term economic decline was due
to the long-term buildup of entrenched interest groups there
   
 
 
 
Ostrom, Elinor, 1990, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective
Action (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press).
 
 
 
 
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Index and Glossary

There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles here, and a glossary of economic terms here.

See also the index to the politics articles .

methodology

"The European Union is something ... 
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights."
Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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