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Association membership and generalised trust: are connections between associations losing their value?
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Abstract
Research linking civic engagement to citizens' democratic values, generalized trust, cooperative norms, and so on often implicitly assumes such connections are stable over time. This article argues that, due to changes in the broader institutional environment, the engagement-values relation is likel... view more
Research linking civic engagement to citizens' democratic values, generalized trust, cooperative norms, and so on often implicitly assumes such connections are stable over time. This article argues that, due to changes in the broader institutional environment, the engagement-values relation is likely to generally lack temporal stability. We investigate this empirically by analysing the engagement-trust relation using World Values Survey (WVS) data from the 1990 and 2000 waves. Overall, our results show that voluntary association memberships remain positively associated with generalised trust in both samples, but evidence that memberships in connected associations are better than in isolated ones appears, at best, scant in more recent years. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
confidence; social network; world; value-orientation; citizens' involvement; honorary office; membership; analysis; club
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Organizational Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
15 p.
Series
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Schwerpunkt Märkte und Politik, Forschungsprofessur und Projekt The Future of Fiscal Federalism, SP II 2012-101
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56053
Status
Published Version; reviewed
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