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Radical distrust: Are economic policy attitudes tempered by social trust?

Debates about the appropriate role of markets and governments are often shaped by sharply contrasting opinions. Based on individual data from the World Values Survey and the European Values Study for up to 190,000 respondents in a sample of 68 democratic countries, we find that social trust is associated with tempered attitudes regarding government intervention and redistribution. Results corroborate ideas from socio-psychological research that trusting people have personality attributes which work towards a moderation on politically divisive topics. Complementary to the existing literature on political polarisation, this opens the possibility that trusting societies may be superior at implementing controversial policy reforms because social trust reduces the probability of extreme attitude formation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 594

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Thema
social trust
polarization
policy attitudes
preference formation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pitlik, Hans
Rode, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pitlik, Hans
  • Rode, Martin
  • Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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