Unbundling Culture and Institutions: Learning from a Natural Experiment at Makerere University

• In Event: Trust and Cultural Norms in Africa

Brief Overview

This paper leverages a historical natural experiment in the oldest university in East Africa to examine the origin and evolution of culture and attempts to disentangle culture from informal institutions, two central concepts that are often conflated.

Author

• Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland