Many citizens distrust powerful societal institutions, and hold conspiracy theories about
them. What are the implications of this suspicion of institutions for people's social …

Vaccine acceptance depends on public trust and confidence in the safety and efficacy of
vaccines and immunization, the health system, healthcare professionals and the wider …

Public acceptance is a precondition for implementing taxes and laws aimed at mitigating
climate change. However, it still remains challenging to understand its determinants for the …

We examine heterogeneity in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy across eight European countries.
We reveal striking differences across countries, ranging from 6.4% of adults in Spain to …

The emergence of Industry 4.0 has brought in its wake an important number of challenges
and opportunities for organisations across the globe. To cope with such a fast-changing …

Despite signs of declining press trust in many western countries, we know little about trends
in press trust across the world. Based on comparative survey data from the World Values …

A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets,
managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action. Any …

We characterized> 150 countries' resilience to COVID-19 as the nationwide decay rate of
daily cases or deaths from peak levels. Resilience to COVID-19 varies by a factor of~ 40 …

We advance a new theoretical framework to capture the diverse and unique institutional
context of understudied economies in Africa, Middle East, East Europe, Latin America, and …

A generalized climate of distrust in political institutions is not functional to healthy
democracies. With the advent of social media, recent scholarly efforts attempt to better …