Search for dissertations about: "Generalized Trust"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words Generalized Trust.

2. 1. Essays on Social Norms and Economic Change

   Author : Karl Mcshane; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Norms; Gender norms; Executive recruitment; Generalized trust; Immigration; business incubators; Entrepreneurship; Social norms; gender norms; entrepreneurship; business incubators; immigration; generalized trust; social trust;

   Abstract : This dissertation consists of three empirical essays concerning social norms and their effect on economic outcomes. Each essays discusses a seperate subject. READ MORE

4. 2. Generalized Trust in Surveys: From Scales to Dragons

   Author : Sebastian Lundmark; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Generalized Trust; Survey Methodology; Survey Experiments; Panel Studies;

   Abstract : Generalized trust has been one of the frequently researched attitudes in political and social sciences. Although this type of trust saw its real breakthrough in the theories about social capital, offered by Robert D. Putnam in 1993, the survey measurement was created in the 1940s. READ MORE

5. 3. Generalized trust and the collective action dilemma of immunization

   Author : Björn Rönnerstrand; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Collective action; immunization; pandemics; A H1N1 ; generalized trust; reciprocity; social capital; Sweden; United States;

   Abstract : Immunization is one of the most cost-efficient medical treatments available. But the potential for societies to secure the public health benefits generated by vaccinations can be reduced by the collective action dilemma of immunization. READ MORE

6. 4. The Multiple Dilemmas of Environmental Protection - The Effects of Generalized and Political Trust on the Acceptance of Environmental Policy Instruments

   Author : Niklas Harring; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social dilemmas; Generalized trust; Political trust; Environmental policy instruments; Environmental attitudes; Quality of Government;

   Abstract : With different environmental policy instruments (EPIs) that target individual citizens, the state can change activities or behaviors that have negative environmental consequences. However, EPIs are not likely to be implemented or have the intended effects unless people support these policies since a lack of support may affect willingness to comply, and politicians may not even introduce them due to the risk of loss in electoral support. READ MORE

7. 5. Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden

   Author : Mohabbat Mohseni; Socialepidemiologi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; acute myocardial infarction AMI ; Self-rated health; social capital; institutional trust; horizontal trust; access to health care; care-seeking behaviour; political trust; ethnicity; Sweden; discrimination; anticipation;

   Abstract : The rational for studying health consequences of social determinants is to enable understanding of factors that affect population patterns of health, disease and well-being in order to produce knowledge useful for guiding policies and actions to reduce social inequalities in health and promote social well-being. The aims of this study have been to investigate the association between aspects of social capital, discrimination and health. READ MORE