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INSTITUTIONAL FORMS AND LEVELS OF CIVIC ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY: SOCIETY: LEVELS OF INSTITUTIONAL FORMS OF BRIDGING CIVIC ASSN.
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Faculties of Economics and Sociology, October 2002, to the SPURS Geography of Innovation Seminar at MIT, February 2003, to the NOLD Doctoral School in Troms?, Norway, April 2003, and to the Hettner Lectures in Heidelberg, June 2003.The field research which stimulated this paper was carried out jointly with Lena Lavinas (Federal University of Rio de...
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... is probably because associationalism can assume many different institutional forms, which determine its ultimate effects on economic development. Figure 1 illustrates some of the many possible combinations of these institutional forms, albeit in a highly schematic and simplified way. ...
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JEL Codes: L14, O31, C33
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... In the following, the term "society" refers to a population that is bound together by overarching rules and laws(Storper, 2005). Consequently, they can (but do not have to) have ethnically or politically different backgrounds and interests. ...
... Consequently, they can (but do not have to) have ethnically or politically different backgrounds and interests. In contrast, a "community" is bound together by similar values or a shared identity and can represent a distinct group of people within a society(Storper, 2005). Consequently, a community for example refers to the Bosnian Serb community, to the supra-national community of Serbs and Bosnian Serbs, or to a smaller entity such as the (ethnically and ideologically quite homogenous) community of Prijedor. ...
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