According to a popular version of social capital theory, civic engagement should produce
generalized trust among citizens. We put this theory to the test by examining the causal …

Generalized social trust has been argued to have positive effects for both individuals and
society, but despite solid theoretical arguments in favour of different contextual effects, the …

Trust in state institutions is a prominent explanation of social trust. However, previous—
mainly cross-sectional—analyses provide limited causal evidence regarding the relationship …

Political trust has for a long time been understood as closely intertwined with civic culture1
and people's social interactions. In Almond and Verba's The Civic Culture (1963) political …

This paper examines the impact of government actions on social trust after controlling for
individual and community characteristics. Using unique individual level data drawn from the …

According to Confucius, the three essential components of successful government are trust,
food and weapons. Many since him have repeated, in one way or another, the general …

In spite of the great importance attached by social capital theory to the role of social trust in
maintaining stable and effective democracy, research has produced rather weak and mixed …

Social, or 'generalized'trust relates to beliefs held by individuals in a given society about the
moral orientation and incentive structure of a diffuse, unknown 'other'(Delhey and Newton …

I came upon the study of trust by accident. In 1993 I published a book in which I linked the
decline in comity among members of Congress to increasing incivility in the American public …

The Global Trust Inventory (GTI), conceptually assessing trust in others ranging from close
interpersonal relationships to relationships with government and financial institutions as a …