Socio-cultural Cleavages in Europe

Ákos Bodor, Zoltán Grünhut and Réka Horeczki

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Abstract: This paper investigates socio-cultural differences among European countries. The theoretical roots of our defined socio-cultural dimensions are elaborated in a multidisciplinary field. According to the considerable scientific literature, various socio-cultural aspects such as trust, tolerance, civic norms and social networks have a serious impact on the development potential of a country or a region. We empirically tested the characteristics of these socio-cultural aspects on the European Social Survey database. The main conclusion of the paper is that there is a definite socio-cultural cleavage between the northern/western and the Central and Eastern European countries.

Keywords: Socio-cultural differences; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 R1 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-02
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Published in Regional Statistics 2.4(2015): pp. 106-125

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