The Oxford Handbook of S O C IA L A N D P O L I T I C A L T RU S T The Oxford Handbook of SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TRUST Edited by ERIC M. USLANER 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978–0– 19–027480–1 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America Contents About the Editor ix Contributors xi PART I. APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF TRUST 1. The Study of Trust 3 Eric M. Uslaner 2. Measuring Trust 15 Paul C. Bauer and Markus Freitag 3. Social and Political Trust 37 Kenneth Newton, Dietlind Stolle, and Sonja Zmerli 4. Trust and National Identity 57 Patti Tamara Lenard and David Miller 5. Trust and Democracy 75 Mark E. Warren 6. Ingroup- Outgroup Trust: Barriers, Benefits, and Bridges 95 Roderick M. Kramer PART II. WHERE DOES SOCIAL TRUST COME FROM? 7. Biological and Psychological Influences on Interpersonal and Political Trust 119 Matthew Cawvey, Matthew Hayes, Damarys Canache, and Jeffery J. Mondak 8. Trust and Participation in Associations 149 Pamela Paxton and Robert W. Ressler vi Contents PART III. HOW DIFFERENT GROUPS DEVELOP SOCIAL TRUST 9. Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Critical Review of the Literature and Suggestions for a Research Agenda 175 Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov 10. Cultural Persistence or Experiential Adaptation? A Review of Studies Using Immigrants to Examine the Roots of Trust 205 Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov 11. Trust and Minority Groups 231 Rima Wilkes and Cary Wu PART IV. SOCIAL TRUST AND RATIONAL CHOICE 12. Trust and Rational Choice 253 Karen S. Cook and Jessica J. Santana 13. Trust Experiments, Trust Games, and Surveys 279 Rick K. Wilson 14. Trust Games: Game- Theoretic Approaches to Embedded Trust 305 Vincent Buskens, Vincenz Frey, and Werner Raub PART V. COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF TRUST 15. Trust in Newly Democratic Regimes 335 Natalia Letki 16. Social and Political Trust in Developing Countries: Sub- Saharan Africa and Latin America 357 Robert Mattes and Alejandro Moreno Contents vii PART VI. OUTCOMES OF SOCIAL TRUST 17. Trust and the Welfare State 385 Staffan Kumlin, Isabelle Stadelmann- Steffen, and Atle Haugsgjerd 18. New Evidence on Trust and Well- Being 409 John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, and Shun Wang 19. Trust and Population Health 447 Ichiro Kawachi PART VII. POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL TRUST 20. Trust and Corruption 473 Jong- sung You 21. Trust and Tax Morale 497 Ho Fai Chan, Mohammad Wangsit Supriyadi, and Benno Torgler 22. Social Trust and Economic Growth 535 Christian Bjørnskov PART VIII. POLITICAL TRUST: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM, WHY IT MATTERS 23. Foundations of Political Trust 559 Ola Listhaug and Tor Georg Jakobsen 24. Political Trust and Polarization 579 Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph 25. Economic Performance and Political Trust 599 Tom W. G. van der Meer 26. Trust and Elections 617 Marc Hooghe 27. Trust in Justice 633 Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, and Mike Hough viii Contents PART IX. TRUST IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 28. Trust in International Actors 657 Paul R. Brewer, Kimberly Gross, and Timothy Vercellotti 29. Trust in International Relations 687 Brian Christopher Rathbun Index 707 About the Editor Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China, and an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He has also been a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of nine books, including The Moral Foundations of Trust; Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life; Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion; and The Historical Roots of Corruption: Mass Education, Economic Inequality, and State Capacity, and has also authored more than 150 articles.