Social Capital and Political Institutions: Evidence that Democracy Fosters Trust

Martin Ljunge

No 988, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper finds evidence that more democratic political institutions increase trust. Second generation immigrants with ancestries from 115 countries are studied within 30 European countries. Comparing individuals born and residing in the same country, those whose father was born in a more democratic country express higher trust than those whose father was born in a less democratic country. The results are robust to individual, parental, and ancestral country controls.

Keywords: Trust; Democracy; Political institutions; Cultural transmission; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F55 H10 J62 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2013-11-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-evo, nep-pol and nep-soc
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Published as Ljunge, Martin, 'Social Capital and Political Institutions: Evidence that Democracy Fosters Trust' in Economics Letters, 2014, pages 44-49.

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