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model is that individuals in low trust countries want more government intervention even though the government is corrupt. We … government's role, as well as on changes in beliefs and in trust during the transition from socialism …
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integration among European regions. We find regions, where the level of confidence and trust is high, are more financially …
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welfare returns to investing in trust could be substantial. Using social trust data from 132 nations covered by the Gallup … World Poll, we present a range of estimates of social trust's wealth-equivalent values. The estimates of the wealth embodied …. These estimates reflect values above and beyond what social trust contributes to supporting incomes and health. Although …
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and frequency of use of social networks, combined with a number of measures of general and domain-specific trust, which … are often used to gauge effective social capital. Using these measures we find that trust and social network size and use …
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political participation. We also show that strong family ties appear to be a substitute for generalized trust, rather than a … complement to it. These three constructs-civic engagement, political participation, and trust- are part of what is known as …
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transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust … equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We …
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Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and … questions about trust predict trustworthiness not trust. Only children are less trustworthy. People behave in a more trustworthy …
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Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...
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This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the U.S. Civil War. Our analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of 1848-49 were expelled to the U.S. and became anti-slavery campaigners who helped...
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In elections that take place in a less-than-perfect democracy, incumbency advantages are different from those in mature democracies. The incumbent can prevent credible challengers from running, organize vote fraud, or even physically eliminate his main opponents. At the same time, formally...
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