Does democracy foster trust?

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-269

  Rainer, Helmut ^a   Siedler, Thomas ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Institutional trust; Political regimes; Social trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349089033     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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