Why do levels of public trust in NGOs vary across post-communist countries? How does media independence influence these trust levels? The authors begin from the premise that citizens develop trust in NGOs when they believe that NGOs function according to their normative expectations and they...

This paper empirically examines the impact of social trust on life satisfaction in transition countries. By using household-level data from Life in Transition Survey in 2006, 2010, and 2016, we estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of social trust on life satisfaction level based on the...

This paper studies the trust-based efficiency gains in public sector with focus on transitional economies. We conducted a survey of public buyers in Russia and Slovakia in 2020. The results show that the generalized trust is positively related to procurement efficiency, though this effect is...