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dc.contributor.authorGeys, Bennyen
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-16-
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-26T15:04:12Z-
dc.date.available2012-03-26T15:04:12Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/56053-
dc.description.abstractResearch 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aWissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) |cBerlinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWZB Discussion Paper |xSP II 2012-101en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordvoluntary associationsen
dc.subject.keywordgeneralised trusten
dc.subject.keywordworld values studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsocial networksen
dc.subject.keywordlongitudinal analysisen
dc.subject.stwEhrenamtliche Arbeiten
dc.subject.stwMitgliedschaften
dc.subject.stwVertrauenen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Werteen
dc.subject.stwSoziales Netzwerken
dc.subject.stwWelten
dc.titleAssociation membership and generalised trust: Are connections between associations losing their value?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn688718205en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:wzbfff:SPII2012101en

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