Cultural Values Institutions and Trust

<p>Using experimental surveys as a primary source Kim and Kim compare a wide range of developed countries to assess the determinants of generalized social trust. </p><p>With data from Belgium France Italy Japan Singapore South Korea the Netherlands and the United States Kim and Kim present a detailed picture of trust at the individual level across different ethnic groups and across different regions with economic and cultural distinctions. They focus on a range of concepts including generalized trust and familism; causal relationships among cultural values particularized trust and institutional trust at the individual level; and relationships between culture wealth and governance at the macro-level. In doing so they consolidate substantial quantitative data with rigorous theoretical analysis and advance our understanding of social trust and prosociality in general.</p><p>A valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in political science sociology and social psychology around the world.</p>