Does social distrust always lead to a stronger support for government intervention?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F15%3A43888115" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/15:43888115 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does social distrust always lead to a stronger support for government intervention?
Original language description
The paper considers 'trust' as an empirical determinant of individual support for government intervention. The central notion is that the influence of generalized trust on policy attitudes is conditional on confidence in both state actors and major companies. The starting point is the idea that individuals who generally distrust other persons have a stronger taste for the regulation of economic activities, while people with high interpersonal trust are in favor of less stringent regulatory control. Yet,people who do not trust unknown others also tend to mistrust government and private companies. If mistrust in state actors dominates, we should not necessarily expect stronger interventionist preferences. Estimating the determinants of interventionist attitudes using data from the World Values Survey/European Values Study for approximately 130,000 individuals in forty OECD- and EU-countries, we find evidence that the impact of social trust on government intervention attitudes is conditi
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/7E12049" target="_blank" >7E12049: Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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