TY - JOUR
T1 - Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust?
T2 - The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries
AU - Nannestad, Peter
AU - Svendsen, Gert Tinggard
AU - Dinesen, Peter Thisted
AU - Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Social Trust
KW - Culture
KW - Institutions
KW - Migration
U2 - 10.1080/1369183x.2013.830499
DO - 10.1080/1369183x.2013.830499
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1369-183X
VL - 40
SP - 544
EP - 565
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
IS - 4
ER -