Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust?: The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries

Peter Nannestad; Gert Tinggard Svendsen; Peter Thisted Dinesen; Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2013.830499

Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust? The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries

Peter Nannestad, Gert Tinggard Svendsen, Peter Thisted Dinesen, Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Volume	40
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	544-565
ISSN	1369-183X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2013.830499
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Faculty of Social Sciences
Social Trust
Culture
Institutions
Migration

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Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust? The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries. / Nannestad, Peter; Svendsen, Gert Tinggard; Dinesen, Peter Thisted et al.
In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 40, No. 4, 2014, p. 544-565.

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