How does social trust lead to better governance? An attempt to separate electoral and bureaucratic mechanisms

By Christian Bjørnskov. 2010

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Informal Institutions and Their Comparative Influences on Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: The Role of In‐Group Collectivism and Interpersonal Trust (2016, background): “The degree to which individuals within a country demonstrate general trust in others has also been used as a country-level indicator of social capital (Bjørnskov 2010).”
Trust and Wellbeing (2010, unknown): “Bjørnskov (2010b) and Helliwell (2008) found systematic national-level differences between early waves of the Cantril Ladder used in GWP and life satisfaction in WVS.”
The productivity of trust (2015, background): “Similar implications follow from the literature on trust responsiveness briefly surveyed in Bjørnskov (2007, 2010). are both more likely to be close to the technological frontier and more likely to adopt new technologies early (Bornschier, 2005).”
Does Economic Freedom Foster Tolerance (2013, background): “…those who do not follow the dictates of the 19 Although this measure has been criticized for its vagueness, a number of studies show that respondents perceive this question as a measure of trust in people in general (Bjørnskov 2007, 2010; Newton 2007). prelates (cf. Klosko 2000 and Bjørnskov 2007).”
Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development? (2013, background): “Reflecting this difference, Bjørnskov (2010) finds that social trust affects the quality of legal institutions only in democratic countries.”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, methodology): “Our results thus do not support the policy advice that trust can be increased 23 See for example Bjørnskov (2010), Boix andPosner (1998), Helliwell andWang (2011), Knack andKeefer (1997), Papagapitos and Riley (2009), Putnam (1993) and Zak and Knack (2001).”