While trust has long been recognized as an important virtue by philosophers and
psychologists, only in recent years has it gained attention from social scientists. Robert …

This article explores the effects of the state on the creation of social trust. It identifies four
theories connecting these two variables. The first and probably most important one stresses …

Trust in state institutions is a prominent explanation of social trust. However, previous—
mainly cross-sectional—analyses provide limited causal evidence regarding the relationship …

The relationships among objective macroeconomic outcomes, subjective evaluations, and
political trust are widely studied. Yet, these relationships are not as straightforward as they …

Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use
raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world. Both long …

Does power-sharing drive corruption in post-conflict countries? We conceptualize
government elites in any post-conflict situation as rent-seeking agents who need to ensure …

Since the 1993 publication of Robert Putnam's modern classic Making Democracy Work,
which analyzed the politics of regions in Italy, issues of social capital and social trust have …

Italy was the first European country to be affected by the Covid‐19. To limit the contagion, an
emergency protocol was triggered on March 10, 2020, which imposed a lockdown for 69 …

In this chapter we review the literature on the relationship between quality of government—
conceptualized as quality of institutions at the output side of government—and generalized …

The causal relationship between trust and corruption has sparked heated scholarly debates.
This study holistically explores the impacts of three typical forms of trust, namely, general …