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Location, location, location: contextual and compositional health effects of social capital in British Columbia, Canada
TL;DR: The strongest predictors of health in multivariate and multilevel models were characteristics of individual survey respondents, namely, income, trust in politicians and governments, and trust in other members of the community.
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Before the Emergence of Critical Citizens: Economic Development and Political Trust in China
TL;DR: The authors found that the Chinese public expresses fairly strong criticism of some aspects of Chinese society, but they express high levels of confidence in the national government, indicating that people are less deferential to authority and increasingly ready to challenge government.
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A critique of social capital.
TL;DR: The author focuses on Robert Putnam's understanding of both communitarianism and social capital, showing that the apolitical analysis of the Progressive Era, of the progressive developments in Northern Italy, and of the situation of labor unions in the United States is not only insufficient but wrong.
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News media trust and its impact on media use: toward a framework for future research
Jesper Strömbäck,Yariv Tsfati,Hajo G. Boomgaarden,Alyt Damstra,Elina Lindgren,Rens Vliegenthart,Torun Lindholm +6 more
TL;DR: In contemporary high-choice media environments, the issue of media trust and its impact on people's media use has taken on new importance as mentioned in this paper, and the extent to which people trust the new...
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Economic freedom, culture, and growth
TL;DR: The authors argue that culture and economic institutions associated with economic freedom are both independently important for economic prosperity, but the strength of their impact can be better understood only when both are included in the growth regression.