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What is Social Capital about?
This document summarizes a journal article that examines how both social capital and government performance impact trust in government over time using macro-level data. The article finds that while government performance affects trust, social capital appears to be the primary driver of the long-term decline in trust witnessed in the United States since the 1950s-1960s. Specifically, when citizens disengage from civic life, they are less able to trust political institutions, even as government performance ma
- Author
- Georgiana Serban
- Language
- EN