Thesis
World Systems Theory and Cross-National Variations in Trust
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000003126
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/119026
Abstract
Cross-national research identifies trust as being highly associated with a country’s income, inequality, average education, quality of institutions, and religious tradition. Using a measure of generalized trust from the World Values Survey question “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you need to be careful when dealing with most people?” I examine the extent to which World Systems Theory is a better theoretical framework for predicting cross-national trust than previous frameworks across a 41 country sample. The findings suggest that a country’s place in the World System is a strong predictor of national-level trust, and that other previously-used predictors may be less important under this perspective.
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- Title
- World Systems Theory and Cross-National Variations in Trust
- Creators
- Cassandra Althea Leonard
- Contributors
- Alair MacLean (Advisor)Justin Denney (Committee Member)Christine Horne (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 56
- Identifiers
- 99900651899501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis