Social Capital, Economic Growth and Quality of Government: The Causal Mechanism

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Mapping the Regional Divide in Europe: A Measure for Assessing Quality of Government in 206 European Regions (2014, background): “Why societies enter a vicious or virtuous circle is a question that has drawn the attention of several scholars in recent years, both at the national (Rothstein 2003; Rothstein and Uslaner 2005) and regional levels (Tabellini 2010; Charron and Lapuente 2013).”
How Does Social Trust Affect Economic Growth (2012, background): “Rothstein (2003) alternatively surmise that when individuals observe corrupt behavior in public institutions, they infer from that observation that people in general are not to be trusted.”
The Determinants of Trust (2005, unknown): “Lastly, turning to the effects of welfare states proposed by e.g. Rothstein (2003) reveal that, all other things being equal, the association between the two welfare measures and social trust is negative, i.e. it has the ‘wrong’ sign if Rothstein’s theory were right.”