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- Title: Government Behavior and Trust: The Case of China (Report)
- Author : The Cato Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
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Social capital has become a critical term in the social sciences since Loury (1977) and Coleman's (1988) seminal studies. Coleman (1990) and Putnan, Leonardi, and Nanetti (1993) focus on the positive spillover effect of social capital. Fukuyama (1997) argues that only certain shared norms and values can be regarded as social capital. Putnan (2000), Ostrom (2000), and Bowles and Gintis (2002) highlight the network effect of social capital. All these studies demonstrate that trust is central to social capital. Fafchamps (2004) argues that trust may be understood as an optimistic expectation or belief regarding other agents' behavior. The origin of trust, however, may wiry. Durkheim (2000) argues that trust comes from family ties. Platteau (1994a, 1994b) argues that it arises from general knowledge about the population of agents, the incentives they face, and the upbringing they have received. The former can be called personalized trust and the latter generalized trust. Glaeser et al. (2000) employ economic experiments to see how attitudes and background characteristics influence the choice of strategies.