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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"generalised trust"”.
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Measuring generalised trust in sub-Saharan Africa : a critical note
… speaking, would you say most people can be trusted or that one must be careful in dealing with others?" For the past 50 years this question has been used extensively and almost exclusively as a measure of generalised trust in both national and cross-national studies. However, it was not …
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On the Determinants of Generalised Trust: An Investigation of the Institution-Centred and Society-Centred Perspectives
… and society-centred perspectives on generalized trust. Using advanced statistical techniques, I first assess some central implications of the two approaches employing observational data. In particular, I begin by suggesting that the scarcity of different goods in a region (lack of personal …
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Social Capital and Self-rated Health: testing association with longitudinal and multilevel methodologies
… All four papers of this thesis demonstrate that generalised trust is the most robust of all social capital proxies tested, it maintaining a positive association with SRH over time. Furthermore, results from paper III imply that prior trust levels can predict future SRH, lending weight to the …
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Economic Development in Developing Countries: An In-depth Analysis of the Nexus of Social Capital and Institutions in Fostering Entrepreneurial Activities for Economic Development
… provides nuanced insights. Civic norms and close trust emerge as influenEal factors in fostering opportunity entrepreneurship, while generalised trust and associaEon membership play a pronounced role in economic growth. This research challenges simplisEc views by offering a comprehensive …
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Trust and participation in urban regeneration.
… the field. It has been suggested that developing trust in relevant organisations, officials or other local residents may offer a potential solution to citizens' disengagement. Very little research has been conducted into trust and its relationship with participation in the field of urban …
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Networks, [Mis]trust, and Pentecostal Conversion: narratives of divergent pathways among small Black entrepreneurs in Tshwane
… impinge upon the workings of social capital and trust among small black entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need to draw on social networks to get advice and resources to launch and manage a business. The contacts that lead to successful outcomes are their social capital and they are a key component of …
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Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden.
… concern the associations between institutional trust in the health care system, political trust in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) and anticipation of discrimination, on the one hand, and self-rated health, on the other, adjusting for generalized (horizontal) trust in other people as a …
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Otrygghetens landskap. En kartläggning av otryggheten i stadsrummet och en analys av bakomliggande orsaker, med fokus på mediernas roll
… But also personal anxiety and lack of generalised trust play an important role in the sensations, but neither independent of the context. All of the factors that influence the sensation are either added on or are subtracted from the sensation of fear and insecurity in the urban public …