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Institutions, Civil Society, Trust and Quality of Life: A Social Capital- And Social Identity-Based Approach. Evidence from the Russian Federation
Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Skilters, Jurgis - 2014
social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist … features of social networking. According to such a view, the civil society is the resultant of a combination of factors related … in society are generated, and their relation with socio-economic and sustainable development. However, attempted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400025
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Institutions, Civil Society, Trust and Quality of Life: A Social Capital- And Social Identity-Based Approach. Evidence from the Russian Federation
Sechi, Guido; Tatarko, Alexander; Skilters, Jurgis - European Regional Science Association - 2014
social capital generation in order to explain civil society dynamics, in particular in countries ? such as former communist … features of social networking. According to such a view, the civil society is the resultant of a combination of factors related … in society are generated, and their relation with socio-economic and sustainable development. However, attempted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075897
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Family ties and political participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832188
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159947
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Learning to Trust
Nooteboom, Bart - 2005
Trust is full of puzzle and paradox. Trust is both rational and emotional. Trust can go beyond calculative self-interest, but has its limits. People may want to trust, while they may also feel threatened by it. If trust is not in place prior to a relationship, on the basis of institutions, prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065501
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State history, intergenerational transmission and institutional trust in Africa
Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis that intergenerationally transmitted beliefs act as a mechanism through which pre-colonial institutions influence modern day attitudes towards state figures in African countries. To address the question empirically, I combine contemporary individual-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011935959
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The moldable young : how institutions impact social trust
Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016
Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536000
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The Company of Strangers : A Natural History of Economic Life
Seabright, Paul - 2010 - 2nd ed
The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487817
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The company of strangers : a natural history of economic life
Seabright, Paul - 2010 - Rev. ed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901297
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Civil Society as a Complex Adaptive Phenomenon
Novak, Mikayla - 2018
I depict civil society as a complex and adaptive phenomenon. Individuals and groups within civil society interact with …, communal and political relationships. Civil society is not a mere aggregation of these sub-orders but a combinatorial ensemble … perspectives within civil society continuously vie against each other for widespread support, and critically appraise the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924541