literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …

This paper examines how the interaction of social trust and institutions, such as land administration, affects … mitigated in communes with higher level of trust. These results support the view that trust complements formal institutions. …

-term attitudes and behaviours essential to functioning in a society, such as trust. In this paper we ask how exposure to natural … disasters within the impressionable years may affect the formation of trust by matching data from over 1,000 disaster … impressionable years, we show that disaster exposure has a negative and significant association with generalized trust. Additionally …

' Union, Women's Union, etc.) and other voluntary organizations, trust, and the significance of family ties in economic … Communist Party membership, trust and access to informal insurance. …

fielded an in-person survey to nearly 3,000 urban youths, measuring various sociopolitical attitudes such as trust in … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … first ten years of life is associated with up to a 20 per cent decrease in reported interpersonal and political trust. We …