Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning
of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in governments' and health …

Community resilience is often assessed in disaster risk management (DRM) research and it
has been argued that it should be strengthened for more robust DRM. However, the term …

For over ten years the World Happiness Report has influentially ranked nations on self-
reported life evaluation as measured by the Gallup World Poll. Inspired by this endeavour …

Empirical results regarding the role of interpersonal trust in the pandemic setting have been
inconsistent. We argue that one explanation may be an inherent weakness in the standard …

Social trust has typically been considered a deep-seated, thus stable, disposition. However,
in accordance with institutional theory, a recent analysis applying fixed effects regressions …

National differences in uncertainty, inequality, and trust have been accentuated by COVID-
19. There are indications that the pandemic has impacted societies characterized by high …

Scandinavian societies express the world's highest levels of trust in surveys and display
high levels of social capital more generally. Scholars and policy makers disagree on …

The Nordic states and territories represent stable, well-functioning democratic societies
where the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities are …

Executive summary This report is part of a larger cross-country comparative project and
constitutes an account and analysis of the measures comprising the Norwegian national …

Analyzing corruption is a topic of interest to many and is indeed very complex due to its
inherent difficulties with its identification and quantification. Past studies present several …