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The moral foundations of trust
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ISBN: 9780521011037 0521011035 0521812135 9780521812139 9780511614934 0511614934 0511838972 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Moral Foundations of Trust seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers, and why doing so matters. Trust is a moral value that does not depend upon personal experience or on interacting with people in civic groups or informal socializing. Instead, we learn to trust from our parents, and trust is stable over long periods of time. Trust depends on an optimistic world view: the world is a good place and we can make it better. Trusting people are more likely to give through charity and volunteering. Trusting societies are more likely to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor. Trust has been in decline in the United States for over 30 years. The roots of this decline are traceable to declining optimism and increasing economic inequality, which Uslaner supports by aggregate time series in the United States and cross-sectional data across market economies.


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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.


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The Oxford handbook of social and political trust
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ISBN: 9780190274825 9780190274801 0190274808 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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"This Handbook covers social and political trust. Essays cover the foundations of both types of trust, whether they have common or different roots. The Handbook includes essays on rational choice approaches to trust, including trust games and experiments-as well as an essay on how we measure trust. There are essays on the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, including how we are more likely to trust people like ourselves than strangers, as well as the place of trust in democracy- how national identity shapes trust, how trust forms in developing countries and in new democracies. Do minority groups are less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries and do patterns of residence shape faith in others? Does interaction with people in groups build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and in turn does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? There are also essays on the foundations of political trust, political trust and the economy and elections. There are essays linking trust to the law, corruption, tax compliance, and economic growth. Authors also discuss how trust shapes cooperation in the international system and how it shapes attitudes toward international institutions and foreign countries"--


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The historical roots of corruption
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ISBN: 9781108403900 1108403905 9781108416481 1108416489 9781108241281 1108271022 1108265561 110824128X Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Why does corruption persist over long periods of time? Why is it so difficult to eliminate? Suggesting that corruption is deeply rooted in the underlying social and historical political structures of a country, Uslaner observes that there is a powerful statistical relationship between levels of mass education in 1870 and corruption levels in 2010 across 78 countries. He argues that an early introduction of universal education is shown to be linked to levels of economic equality and to efforts to increase state capacity. Societies with more equal education gave citizens more opportunities and power for opposing corruption, whilst the need for increased state capacity was a strong motivation for the introduction of universal education in many countries. Evidence for this argument is presented from statistical models, case studies from Northern and Southern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as a discussions of how some countries escaped the 'trap' of corruption.


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National identity and partisan polarization
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ISBN: 0197633951 0197633978 019763396X 0197633943 9780197633946 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Eric M. Uslaner examines how national identity has become a central issue in political and social life across the world. Questions of identity - who should be counted as a 'true member' of a society and who deserves assistance from the government - have displaced other social and economic issues across nations in many countries. This study considers the role of identity theoretically and in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Israel, and Taiwan.


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The decline of comity in Congress
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ISBN: 047210456X 9780472104567 9780472084210 0472084216 Year: 1997 Publisher: ©1993 Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Press

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Why do members of Congress resort to name-calling? In this provocative book, Eric M. Uslaner proposes that Congress is mirroring the increased incivility of American society. He points to five core values - American exceptionalism, enlightened individualism, egalitarianism, science as social engineering. and religion - that have been eroded since the 1960s. The author argues that a lack of trust permeates members of Congress to the point that they would rather seek control than compromise. This, Uslaner contends, is the real cause of gridlock in Washington. The Decline of Comity in Congress demonstrates why institutional reform will not correct this problem and why Americans need to change before their government can.

Social capital and participation in everyday life
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ISBN: 0415232732 Year: 2001 Volume: 23 Publisher: London Routledge

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Political systems --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Community organization --- Political sociology --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Social networks --- Civil society --- Political participation --- Social participation --- Economic development --- Democracy --- Capital social (Sociologie) --- Réseaux sociaux --- Société civile --- Participation politique --- Participation sociale --- Développement économique --- Démocratie --- #SBIB:014.GIFTSOC --- #SBIB:17H20 --- #SBIB:324H71 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Participation, Social --- Community life --- Social groups --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Social contract --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Capital, Social (Sociology) --- Sociology --- Sociale wijsbegeerte: algemeen --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Civil society. --- Democracy. --- Economic development. --- Political participation. --- Social networks. --- Social participation. --- Social capital (Sociology). --- Réseaux sociaux --- Société civile --- Développement économique --- Démocratie


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National identity and social cohesion
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ISBN: 9781786616104 9781786616098 Year: 2021 Publisher: Colchester ECPR

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How American foreign policy is made
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Year: 1974 Publisher: New York-Washington Praeger

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