What Have We Learned About Generalized Trust, If Anything?

By P. Nannestad. 2008

739 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Demography

1. Niclas Berggren
2. Liqun Cao
3. Christian Bjørnskov
4. Marc Bühlmann
5. Markus Freitag
6. P. Bauer
7. P. V. van Lange
8. Jesper J. Rözer

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Liqun Cao
2. Niclas Berggren
3. Marc Bühlmann
4. Christian Bjørnskov
5. Markus Freitag
6. P. Bauer
7. P. V. van Lange
8. Jesper J. Rözer

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Niclas Berggren
2. Christian Bjørnskov
3. Liqun Cao
4. P. V. van Lange
5. René Bekkers
6. Erik van Ingen
7. P. Bauer
8. Marc Bühlmann

Citations in the corpus

• Historical Trust Levels Predict the Current Size of the Welfare State (2011, neutral): “Recently, many studies have particularly noted the apparent association between the high trust levels in the Nordic countries and their extended welfare state policies (Delhey and Newton, 2005; Kumlin and Rothstein, 2005; Bjørnskov, 2007; Nannestad, 2008).”
• Combating Corruption: On the Interplay between Institutional Quality and Social Trust (2011, neutral): “…more precisely measured in relatively richer countries, which could give rise to a spurious interaction between trust and legal quality 10 Reviewing the more recent literature on social trust published since 2000, Nannestad (2008) in particular stresses that many studies exhibit two problems.”
• Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence (2011, neutral): “Nannestad (2008) claims high trust levels enable countries to solve the collective action dilemma created by their welfare systems.”
• Personality traits and the propensity to trust friends and strangers (2016, background): “Despite the growing attention to the notion of social trust, research on trust has also produced a great deal of conceptual confusion as well as scholarly disagreement (Bauer, 2014; Freitag & Bauer, 2013, p. 25; Nannestad, 2008).”
• Differentiating confidence in the police, trust in the police, and satisfaction with the police (2015, background): “It can be considered as a phenomenon embedded in a logic of consequentiality or in a logic of appropriateness (Nannestad, 2008) or as “encapsulated interest” (Hardin, 1998).”
• Crafting Trust (2009, background): “Third, although some strands of social capital theory suggest that one of the most important possible explanations of trust is the politicalinstitutional context (Freitag, 2006; Nannestad, 2008; Neller, 2008; Rothstein & Stolle, 2003; You, 2005) in which individual trust is embedded, previous studie”
• Generalized Trust Through Civic Engagement? Evidence from Five National Panel Studies (2015, background): “The hypothesis that civic engagement fosters trust has been challenged both on theoretical as well as on methodological grounds (Nannestad, 2008; Sturgis, Patulny, & Allum, 2009; Uslaner, 2002).”