Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data

What is the relationship between trust and the quality of political institutions in a society? According to an influential cultural perspective, social trust—the belief that most people can be trusted—is a value inculcated during individuals’ formative years, and remains fixed afterward. A second pe...

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Main Authors: Malcolm Fairbrother, Jan Mewes, Rima Wilkes, Cary Wu, Giuseppe Nicola Giordano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-09-01
Series:Socius
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231221126879