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van Raemdonck, Dirk C.; Maranto, Robert – Journal of School Choice, 2018
The United States is widely characterized as having liberal (limited state) ideology and institutions, while Belgium is relatively statist. Yet the United States relies primarily on local public monopolies to provide elementary and secondary education, while Belgium provides schooling through robust education free markets including and in some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Development, Educational History
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Sanderson, Stephen K.; Abrutyn, Seth B.; Proctor, Kristopher R. – Social Forces, 2011
We provide a test of the thesis that Protestantism influenced the development of modern capitalism by using quantitative data from 1500 through 1870. Results show that during this period the percentage of a country's population that is Protestant is unrelated to both its level of per capita GDP and the average rate of its annual growth in per…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Work Ethic, Social Systems