"Ye shall know them by their fruits" : a mixed methods study on corruption, competitiveness, and Christianity in Europe and the Americas / Jason García Portilla.
García Portilla, Jason, author.
2022
HB72 .G37 2022
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"Ye shall know them by their fruits" : a mixed methods study on corruption, competitiveness, and Christianity in Europe and the Americas / Jason García Portilla.
Author
García Portilla, Jason, author.
ISBN
9783030784980 (electronic bk.)
3030784983 (electronic bk.)
9783030784973
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0 doi
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HB72 .G37 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
201/.73
Summary
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe and the Americas? This open access book addresses these critical questions by elucidating the hegemonic and emancipatory religious factors leading to these dissimilarities between countries. The book features up-to-date mixed methods from interdisciplinary research contributing to existing studies in the sociology of religion field by demonstrating--for the first time--the effect of the mutually reinforcing configuration of multiple prosperity triggers (religion--politics--environment). It demonstrates the differences in the institutionalization of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism by applying quantitative and qualitative methods and by performing a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of 65 countries. The author also provides a comprehensive survey and results of empirical research on different theories of development, focusing on the influence of religion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contributions to economics.
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Part I: Introductory Considerations and Research Setting
1. Introduction
2. Research Setting
Part II: Conceptual Framework
3. The Outcome (Criterion Variables)
4. Diagnosing Corruption and Prosperity in Europe and the Americas (A)
5. Conditions (Predictor Variables): Theories Explaining Prosperity Differences (B), (C), (D), (E)
Part III: Theoretical Foundations
6. Corruption and Religion (A), (B), (1)
7. Prosperity and Religion (A), (B), (1)
8. Institutions, Corruption/Prosperity, and Religion (A), (B), (D), (1), (3), (6)
9. Education, Religion, and Corruption/Prosperity (A), (B), (C), (1), (2)
10. Culture, Religion, and Corruption/Prosperity (A), (B), (C), (1), (2)
11. Language and Religion
12. Environment/Geography and Prosperity/Transparency (E), (4), (7)
Part IV: Research Paradigms, Methodology, and Research Design
13. Applied Research Paradigms
14. Methodology
Part V: Empirical Results
15. Component 1 (Macro): Quantitative (Regression) Analysis
16. Component 2 (Meso): Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Part VI: Component 3 (Micro)
17. Case Selection Criteria, Methods, and Data Treatment
18. a) Switzerland: Extreme Positive Case Study (Worldwide)
19. b) Uruguay: Extreme Positive Case Study (Latin America)
20. c) Cuba: A Sui Generis Case Study (Communist proxy)
21. d) Colombia: Extreme Negative Case Study
22. Summary Overview of the Four Case Studies
Part VII: Discussion and Conclusions
23. Integrative Conclusions
24. Other Considerations
25. Concluding Remarks.

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