Making and Breaking Social Capital

By Staffan Kumlin, Bo Rothstein. 2005

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

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Historical Trust Levels Predict the Current Size of the Welfare State (2011, unknown): “…above do not exclude the possibility that certain types of welfare policies may have a positive effect on trust (as suggested by Barr, 2004, and Kumlin and Rothstein, 2005) or that institutions characterized by economic freedom positively affect trust-levels (as suggested by Berggren and…”
The Decline of Political Trust in Spain and Portugal (2014, background): “This might be especially relevant in countries exposed to the effect of a sharp economic crisis that severely affects the welfare state and social cohesion (Polavieja, 2013) and, consequently, individual social trust (Kumlin & Rothstein, 2005).”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, background): “Such dynamics are even more likely if universal welfare state policies have a positive effect on trust, as suggested by Barr (2004) and Kumlin and Rothstein (2005).”
The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust (2008, background): “…accounts of social capital theory claim that for social capital to flourish it needs to be embedded in and linked to the political context as well as formal political and legal institutions (Berman 1997; Encarnación, 2006; Hall 1999; Levi 1998; Tarrow 1996; Kumlin and Rothstein 2005).”
Is the importance of religion in daily life related to social trust? Cross-country and cross-state comparisons (2011, background): “The latter hypothesis states that welfare-state spending leads to both higher trust, since large welfare states tend to be universal and perceived as fair (Kumlin and Rothstein, 2005), and lower religiosity (Buchanan, 2005), since the welfare state and religion are substitutes in the”