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Segregation and mistrust
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ISBN: 9780521151634 9780521193153 9781139026758 9781139781671 1139781677 9781139775649 1139775642 1139026755 9781139778688 1139778684 052119315X 0521151635 9781283715621 1283715627 1139793063 9781139793063 1316088707 9781316088708 1107253241 9781107253247 1139777165 9781139777162 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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"Eric M. Uslaner examines the theoretical and measurement differences between segregation and diversity and summarizes results on how integrated neighborhoods with diverse social networks increase trust in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia"--


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Corruption, inequality, and the rule of law
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ISBN: 9780521874892 0521874890 9780521145640 9780511510410 9780511409844 0511409842 9780511406034 0511406037 9780511407673 051140767X 0511408730 9780511408731 0511409303 9780511409301 9780511407949 0511407947 0511510411 0521145643 1107181801 9781107181809 1281716960 9781281716965 9786611716967 6611716963 0511407203 9780511407208 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily - or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, in this book Eric M. Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality, low levels of generalized trust (which are not readily changed), and poor policy choices (which may be more likely to change). Economic inequality provides a fertile breeding ground for corruption, which, in turn, leads to further inequalities. Just as corruption is persistent, inequality and trust do not change much over time, according to Uslaner's cross-national aggregate analyses. He argues that high inequality leads to low trust and high corruption, and then to more inequality - an inequality trap - and identifies direct linkages between inequality and trust in surveys of the mass public and elites in transition countries.

Social capital and the transition to democracy
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ISBN: 0415258146 0203428099 9780203428092 9786610073047 661007304X 9780415258142 9781134515318 1134515316 9781134515264 113451526X 9781134515301 1134515308 1280073047 9781280073045 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society.


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Improving Public Opinion Surveys
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ISBN: 1283303299 9786613303295 1400840295 9781400840298 9780691151458 0691151458 9780691151465 0691151466 9781283303293 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the premier social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. Conducted during the presidential election years and midterm Congressional elections, the survey is based on interviews with voters and delves into why they make certain choices. In this edited volume, John Aldrich and Kathleen McGraw bring together a group of leading social scientists that developed and tested new measures that might be added to the ANES, with the ultimate goal of extending scholarly understanding of the causes and consequences of electoral outcomes. The contributors--leading experts from several disciplines in the fields of polling, public opinion, survey methodology, and elections and voting behavior--illuminate some of the most important questions and results from the ANES 2006 pilot study. They look at such varied topics as self-monitoring in the expression of political attitudes, personal values and political orientations, alternate measures of political trust, perceptions of similarity and disagreement in partisan groups, measuring ambivalence about government, gender preferences in politics, and the political issues of abortion, crime, and taxes. Testing new ideas in the study of politics and the political psychology of voting choices and turnout, this collection is an invaluable resource for all students and scholars working to understand the American electorate.

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