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Size Matters - The Impact and Relationship between Size of Government and Generalized Trust

Grabowski, Niklas LU and Berling, George LU (2018) NEKN01 20181
Department of Economics
Abstract
This paper investigates the relationship between generalized trust and the size of government.
Generalized trust has declined during the past 35 years globally. This matters for several reasons including that generalized trust correlates with growth, political participation and stability in society.
To test this relationship, we use the World Value Survey and the European Social Survey together with the Quality of Government dataset. We run two main models using unbalanced panel data. Covering a total of 105 countries for 35 years divided into six waves. We test four hypotheses which are:
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author
Grabowski, Niklas LU and Berling, George LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN01 20181
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Trust, Generalized Trust, Government Size, Granger causality, social capital
language
English
id
8957614
date added to LUP
2018-09-26 10:46:01
date last changed
2018-09-26 10:46:01
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  abstract     = {{This paper investigates the relationship between generalized trust and the size of government.
Generalized trust has declined during the past 35 years globally. This matters for several reasons including that generalized trust correlates with growth, political participation and stability in society.
To test this relationship, we use the World Value Survey and the European Social Survey together with the Quality of Government dataset. We run two main models using unbalanced panel data. Covering a total of 105 countries for 35 years divided into six waves. We test four hypotheses which are:}},
  author       = {{Grabowski, Niklas and Berling, George}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Size Matters - The Impact and Relationship between Size of Government and Generalized Trust}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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