A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.
About the Author
S. Gordon Redding, Poon Kam Kai Professor of Management Studies at the University of Hong Kong, is the author of The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism (1990).
Africa is a battleground between formal democratic institutions and rule by the will of the "big man." Civil society groups are waging this struggle, and technology is equipping them with…
Data from Africa show that repeated elections, regardless of their relative freeness or fairness,appear to have a positive impact on the growth of civil liberties and democratic values.
