Arbeitspapier
Religious Identity, Public Goods and Centralization: Evidence from Russian and Israeli Cities
In this paper, we analyze the effects of religious identity – defined both as personal identification with a religious tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods – on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether citizens belonging to collectivist rather than individualist religious denominations are more likely to evaluate their central government positively. Moreover, we explore whether adherence to collectivist norms of economic and political organization leads to a positive evaluation of central government. Surveys were conducted in Russia and Israel as these countries provide a mosaic of three major world religions – Judaism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam. The information gathered also allows us to study whether attitudes towards religious institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, and the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Israel are able to predict positive attitudes toward centralized forms of governance. We find strong support for the proposition that collectivist norms and an institutional religious identity enhance positive attitudes towards central government.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2013-14
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Capitalist Systems: Performance and Prospects
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Planning, Coordination, and Reform
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Public Economics
Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
Cultural Economics: Religion
- Thema
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Religious identity
public goods
collectivism
individualism
local government
centralization
Russia
Israel
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Grigoriadis, Theocharis
Torgler, Benno
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
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Zürich
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2013
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Grigoriadis, Theocharis
- Torgler, Benno
- Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
Entstanden
- 2013
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