theory and to clarify the functioning of institutions, (2) to test the logical consistency of alternative hypotheses about … institutions, and (3) to relate institutionalist theory with other paradigms and to practice an interested pluralism. …

diverse factors might affect people’s institutional confidence in China and Taiwan. The empirical results reveal that Chinese … have higher degrees of trust toward both public and private institutions. Additionally, Chinese have higher confidence in … ones. We also find that Chinese confidence in public institutions is associated with younger generation, better education …