Nannestad, Svendsen, Dinesen & Mannemar Sønderskov - Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust?
Nannestad, P., Svendsen, T., Dinesen, P.T. & Mannemar Sønderskov, K. (2014) Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust? The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(4): 544-565.
Do institutions or culture determine levels of social trust in society? If quality of institutions determines levels of social trust, migrants from countries with lower-quality institutions should enhance their level of social trust in countries with higher-quality institutions. If, on the other hand, the migrants' level of social trust is determined by their culture, it should not be affected by a different institutional setting. Furthermore, culturally diverse immigrant groups should have different levels of social trust in the same host country. Analysing migration from several non-western countries to Denmark, this paper demonstrates that institutions rather than culture matter for social trust.
Nannestad, Svendsen, Dinesen & Mannemar Sønderskov “Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust? The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries”