Institutional Quality and Generalized Trust: A Nonrecursive Causal Model |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Blaine?G?RobbinsEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 211 Savery Hall, Box 353340, Seattle, WA 98195-3340, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper investigates the association between institutional quality and generalized trust. Despite the importance of the
topic, little quantitative empirical evidence exists to support either unidirectional or bidirectional causality for the reason
that cross-sectional studies rarely model the reciprocal relationship between institutional quality and generalized trust.
Using data from the World Values Survey, World Bank, and other data sources in an identified nonrecursive structural equation
model, results show that generalized trust and institutional quality form a positive reciprocal relationship, where the connection
is stronger from generalized trust to institutional quality. The conclusion discusses implications for theory and policy in
this area. |
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