Consequences of social trust are comparatively well studied, while its societal determinants are often subject to … movements create animosity and political divisions within society that undermine trust. Employing the eight available waves of … the European Social Survey for Spain, we show that social trust levels are not higher in Catalonia than in the rest of the …

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make … a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the … areas from reforms that decrease it. We study separately how social trust, interacted with the different types of political …