Three forms of trust and their association

European Political Science Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-200

  Newton, Ken ^a   Zmerli, Sonja ^b  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

general social trust; particular social trust; political trust; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011514462     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773910000330     Document Type: Article

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