The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust

By Bo Rothstein, Dietlind Stolle. 2008

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

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External conditionality and the debt crisis: the ‘Troika’ and public administration reform in Greece (2015, background): “These traits are both drawn from wider society and promoted within it by the state itself, with one feeding on the other (Rothstein and Stolle 2008).”
Differentiating confidence in the police, trust in the police, and satisfaction with the police (2015, background): “Social capital is commonly defined as shared trust among citizens in a community, active involvement with various types of social networks, and broadly shared norms of reciprocity (Coleman, 1990; Putnam, 1993; Rothstein and Stolle, 2008).”
Quality of Government: What You Get (2009, background): “This, it is argued, eventually led to the formalization of the legal system.54 52 Messick (1999) p. 122 53 Rothstein and Stolle (2008), Rothstein & Eek (2009) 54 Messick (1999) p. 130 17 However, how such “efficient” institutions as the rule of law can be created remains somewhat of a mystery, at…”
Playing defence: the impact of trust on the coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats (2020, background): “Some argue that trust between people has institutional roots (Rothstein and Stolle 2008).”
Measuring trust in vaccination: A systematic review (2018, background): “Historically, generalized trust has been said to play an important role in the flow of information from official sources to individuals in a community.(25,26)”
Varieties of institutional systems: A contextual taxonomy of understudied countries (2016, background): “Trust is determined by the “long-term experience of social organization, anchored in historical and cultural experiences” (Rothstein & Stolle, 2008: 442).”
The bases of political trust in six Asian societies: Institutional and cultural explanations compared (2011, background): “The two theories are usually treated in a mutually exclusive way and contain important policy implications (Newton, 2006; Rothstein and Stolle, 2008): if the society-centered theory is correct, governments can blame their citizens for the lack of social capital; if the politicscentered theory is…”