Posts Tagged ‘democracy’
Blame vodka for Russian mortality
STANFORD (US) — The end of an effective anti-alcohol campaign, not capitalism, can be blamed for a 40 percent surge in deaths in Russia between 1990 and 1994. Continue…
Thursday, April 14, 2011 14:55 - 7 Comments
Society & Culture - Dec 2, 2009 17:32 - 8 Comments
Trust in government gets a no-vote
U. BUFFALO (US)—Ballot initiatives, long thought to encourage democratic citizenship, may actually have the opposite effect of fostering distrust in state government, a new study finds. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 8, 2009 13:31 - 0 Comments
Capitalist or socialist—who’s happier?
Richard Easterlin, a University of Southern California economics professor, is tudying the affect the fall of the Iron Curtain had on the overall well-being of those living in the communist-bloc.
