Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust: Global Pattern or Nordic Exceptionalism?

By J. Delhey, K. Newton. 2005

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

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Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’ approach (2011, neutral): “…when people answer the survey question of whether they believe that ‘most other people can be trusted’, this can be interpreted as their evaluation of the moral standard of the society in which they live, that is the quality of the informal institutions in their society (Delhey and Newton, 2004).”
Does intelligence foster generalized trust? An empirical test using the UK birth cohort studies (2010, background): “These are: social class position in childhood and adulthood (Delhey & Newton, 2003, 2005;Whiteley, 1999), health status (Kawachi et al., 1999), educational attainment (Helliwell & Putnam, 1999; Sturgis, Patulny & Allum, 2007), extent of television watching, associational membership, and…”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, background): “It is often assumed that inequality leads to lower trust (Alesina and la Ferrara, 2002; Uslaner, 2002; Delhey and Newton, 2005; Bjørnskov, 2007, 2008), but the theoretical mechanisms involved are still subject to debate (as shown in overviews by Jordahl, 2008 and Nannestad, 2008), as are those…”
Migration, diversity, and economic growth (2017, result): “Ager and Brückner’s (2013) latter finding is not surprising as a large empirical literature points out to a negative effect of racial fragmentation on social cohesion and interpersonal trust (e.g., Alesina & La Ferrara, 2005; Delhey & Newton, 2005).”
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).”
The Stability of Political Attitudes and Behaviors across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Comparison of Survey Data on Adolescents and Young Adults in Eight Countries (2008, background): “Despite the fact that most countries in Central and Eastern Europe embarked on their transition to liberal democracy more than a decade ago, figures on political trust remain very low in comparison to Western Europe and Scandinavia (Mishler and Rose 2001, 2002).”
A Genetic Basis for Social Trust? (2010, background): “On the face of it, this throws up an apparent paradox; how can the notion of genetic heritability be reconciled with known empirical regularities, such as the wide cross-national variability (Newton and Delhey 2005) and the post-war decline in social trust in the United States?”
Trust in work teams: An integrative review, multilevel model, and future directions (2018, background): “Cross-cultural research has also shown that mean levels of propensity to trust vary greatly from country to country (Delhey & Newton, 2005), with individuals in collectivistic societies showing lower levels than in individualistic societies (Huff & Kelley, 2003).”
The state and consumer confidence in eco-labeling: organic labeling in Denmark, Sweden, The United Kingdom and The United States (2011, background): “For instance, the Danes and Swedes are among the most trusting people in the world (Delhey and Newton 2005; Hudson 2006; Sønderskov 2008a) and they have relatively high levels of environmental concern (Inglehart 1995).”
The Education Effect: Higher Educational Qualifications are Robustly Associated with Beneficial Personal and Socio-political Outcomes (2015, background): “These patterns may reflect national differences that have been found in the strength of the education effect associated with ingroup attitudes and trust, which appear to be stronger in more developed nations and older democracies (Delhey and Newton 2005; Elchardus and De Keere 2013; Hello et al. 200”
The productivity of trust (2015, result): “Although the contention has been rejected by a number of other studies, like Delhey and Newton (2005) and Bjørnskov (2007), we control of causality by systematically complementing OLS estimates by estimates obtained with instrumental variables regressions.”
A social trap for the climate? Collective action, trust and climate change risk perception in 35 countries (2018, background): “The first, what we call social trust, refers to trust in others within a society, linking individuals with people that are different than ourselves, and is sometimes referred to simply as generalized trust (Delhey and Newton, 2005; Herreros and Criado, 2008; Rothstein and Uslaner, 2005).”