Francisco Herreros
Biographic Data
| ID | 382845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Herreros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Herreros |
| SIGNATURE | HERREROS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5802-625X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Trust and emotions in domestic robots
This study explores how emotional and gender-related factors shape trust in domestic robots, drawing on a representative survey of 2010 residents in Spain. Participants responded to hypothetical, text-based scenarios involving three robot types—humanoid, semi-humanoid, and machine-like-performing caregiving tasks primarily in the home. The results reveal a consistent pattern: machine-like robots inspire the highest levels of trust. Women, in part…
Trust and Conspiratorial Thinking
Was the COVID-19 pandemic orchestrated by a secret elite, or does the government simply filter certain truths? While both statements reflect conspiracy thinking, they refer to different rationalities. This study contributes to the debate on the definitions of conspiracy mentality, suspicion and theories by examining their relationships with trust. Analysing a nationally representative survey data from Spain, the study shows that lower levels of t…
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities
There is a vast literature on the effect of inequality on trust, establishing that equality must be a pre-condition for the emergence of trust. However, most empirical research either focuses on case studies or uses measures of income inequality, such as the Gini index. In this article, we argue that a measure of inequality of opportunities is preferable to focusing on inequality of outcomes, as it taps into the psychological foundations of trust…
Social trust and the stringency of public policies against the Covid-19 pandemic
One may wonder why countries have used different public policies to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. We argue that social trust could be the missing link in explaining why these public policies vary in stringency. Based on the logic of game theory, we draw the hypothesis that more social trust in a society means that less stringent policies are needed to abate the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical results at both country and individual levels confirm …
The Long Shadow of Violence
This article analyses how events of political violence in the distant past affect the outbreak of terrorism in the present. Civil wars leave a legacy of distrust that can persist through generations, paving the way to violent responses to perceived threats. We claim that part of the explanation for the counterintuitive terrorism phenomenon in a prosperous and relatively egalitarian region such as the Basque Country (and, potentially, other cases …
The State and Trust
This article explores the effects of the state on the creation of social trust. It identifies four theories connecting these two variables. The first and probably most important one stresses the role of the state as a third-party punisher of free-riders, especially in large societies where people have continuous interactions with strangers. The second claims that citizens extrapolate state officers’ corruption levels to ordinary citizens’ trustwo…
Online Hate and Zeitgeist of Fear
Acts of terror lead to both a rise of an extended sense of fear that goes beyond the physical location of the attacks and to increased expressions of online hate. In this longitudinal study, we analyzed dynamics between the exposure to online hate and the fear of terrorism after the Paris attacks in November 13, 2015. We hypothesized that exposure to online hate is connected to a perceived Zeitgeist of fear (i.e., collective fear). In turn, the p…
Education and trust
To date, most research finds education to have a positive effect on trust. Education increases people’s social intelligence, making them better able to distinguish between trustworthy and opportunistic types. Alternatively, education allows people to attain privileged social status, making them more resistant to deceit and exploitation by opportunistic types. In this article we show that this is not always the case. The relationship between educa…
The Unintended Consequences of Political Mobilization on Trust
Conflicting theories and mixed empirical results exist on the relationship between ethnic diversity and trust. This article argues that these mixed empirical results might be driven by contextual conditions. We conjecture that political competition could strengthen ethnic saliency and, in turn, salient ethnic identities can activate or intensify in-group trust and depress trust in members of other ethnic groups. We test this conjecture using the …
Land reform and peasant revolution. Evidence from 1930s Spain
Land reform and conflict before the Civil War
This article studies the impact of insecure property rights on the behaviour of owners of land before the Spanish Civil War. The theoretical literature on land reform argues that legal threats to the status quo determine agrarian organization, with owners selling land and moving to other asset classes or engaging in large‐scale substitution of sharecroppers and tenants with wage labourers. This study, which uses municipal data on tenant evictions…
Ethnicity and Trust
This article reports the results of an online experiment conducted in two ethnically fragmented societies in Spain: the Basque Country and Catalonia. It tests the effect of co-ethnicity on trust and reciprocity. Ethnicity was manipulated in the experimental context using three ethnic attributes: ancestors' origin, language and name. Additionally, the article reports a comparison of general levels of trust in the two regions. No co-ethnicity effec…
Ties that bind
There have been two main arguments concerning the effects of family relationships on social trust. The first claims that the intensity of the family relationship reduces the capacity of the family members to interact in the outside world, where social uncertainty prevails. The second considers that trust inside the family spills over into trust in strangers. There is a corollary to the first argument: intense family relationships, by reducing soc…
The state counts
Most analyses of the relationship between state institutions and interpersonal trust claim either that the state crowds out trust or that it helps to create trust, acting as a third-party enforcer of agreements. Actually, the relationship between the state and trust is much more complex. This article presents a theoretical model that predicts how trust will evolve in highly efficacious and low-efficacious states. Based on priors about other peopl…
Peace of Cemeteries
This article analyzes whether state repression in post-civil war situations can be explained by dynamics associated with previous civil wars. It claims that in post-civil war situations the state can more easily resort to indiscriminate repression against social groups, relying on information related to the civil war. Two civil war dynamics are tested: preemptive indiscriminate violence to eliminate opposition by the defeated population and retal…
Social Trust, Social Capital and Perceptions of Immigration
Analyses of social capital and immigration have stressed the negative impact that culturally diverse societies have for the development of social trust. Ethnic heterogeneity, according to these studies, is associated with lower levels of social trust. However, social trust has not been studied as an independent variable in order to explain attitudes towards immigration. This article argues that societies with high levels of social capital facilit…
Pre-emptive or Arbitrary
This article analyzes the determinants of the variation in the levels of lethal violence against civilians during a civil war. It departs from the usual explanations of this variation, advancing two different logics to account for civilians' victimization: strategic violence directed to avoid rebellions by targeting would-be political entrepreneurs and violence as a consequence of the breakdown of the state's authority. It uses a new data set on …
The State and the Development of Social Trust
The role of the state in the promotion of social or generalized trust is one of the most important ongoing topics in social capital research. We suggest that the state can play a positive role in the creation of social trust as a third-party enforcer of private agreements. This positive effect depends on the efficacy of the state. We also argue that the effects of the state on social trust will be unevenly distributed among majoritarian and minor…
The State and the Creation of an Environment for the Growing of Trust
There is a growing interest in the literature on trust and social capital in the analysis of the role of the State in the creation and destruction of trust. According to some authors, the intervention of the State crowds out trust instead of fostering it. In this article, the author shows that the intervention of the State as a third-party enforcer of agreements does not crowd out expectations of trust, but it does not create trust either. Howeve…
Confianza y cooperación en ausencia del Estado
Normalmente se considera, tanto en la literatura sobre confianza como en la de capital social, que la confianza es un componente clave para la cooperación. En este artículo se analiza si la confianza puede promover la cooperación en ausencia de las instituciones del Estado. La conclusión es que en ese entorno el individuo no puede formar expectativas bien fundamentadas acerca de lo dignos de confianza que son los demás y, por ello, la cooperación…
Size and Virtue
The importance of the size of a political community for the development of civic virtue has usually been related to the advantages of small size in the possibility of direct democracy and the fulfilment of the classical ideal of freedom as governing and being governed by turn. While these are important variables for the development of civic virtue, in this article it is argued that small size also matters because it allows the development of civi…
Political Support
The analysis of the causes of political support for political institutions has been focused either on one-case studies that stress the relevance of individual variables or cross-national studies that stress the role of institutions. In this article, the authors suggest that to understand the logic of political support, it is necessary to combine both types of explanations. Using evidence from 17 European countries of the 2002 to 2003 European Soc…
Corruption and the Disparty in Levels of Political Support by Winners and Losers
Recent analyses of the determinants of levels of political support have stressed the role of institutions in producing the disparity in support by the winners and losers of an election. The authors claim that it is not only the countries' institutional structures that matter in determining this disparity but also how the institutions work. Specifically, they claim that the disparity between winners and losers is greater in countries with a high l…
Screening before Sanctioning
In modern political science, repeated elections are considered as the main mechanism of electoral accountability in democracies. More rarely, elections are considered as ways to select ‘good types’ of politicians. In this article it is argued that historical republican authors interpreted elections in this last sense. They viewed elections as a means to select what they often called the ‘natural aristocracy’, virtuous political leaders who would …
Por qué confiar? Formas de creación de confianza social
LA CONFIANZA SOCIAL, O CONFIANZA GENERALIZADA, ES UN CONCEPTO CLAVE PARA LA INVESTIGACION SOBRE CAPITAL SOCIAL. SE DEFINE COMO CONFIANZA EN DESCONOCIDOS ACERCA DE LOS QUE SE CARECE DE INFORMACION. EN EL ARTICULO SE ARGUMENTA QUE PUEDE SER CREADA COMO SUBPRODUCTO DE LA PARTICIPACION EN ASOCIACIONES, A TRAVES DE TRES VIAS: LA CONSIDERACION DE LOS MIEMBROS COMO UNA MUESTRA REPRESENTATIVA DE LA SOCIEDAD, LA TRANSFORMACION DE PREFERENCIAS EN UN SENTID…
Social Trust, Social Capital and Perceptions of Immigration
Analyses of social capital and immigration have stressed the negative impact that culturally diverse societies have for the development of social trust. Ethnic heterogeneity, according to these studies, is associated with lower levels of social trust. However, social trust has not been studied as an independent variable in order to explain attitudes towards immigration. This article argues that societies with high levels of social capital facilit…
The State and the Development of Social Trust
The role of the state in the promotion of social or generalized trust is one of the most important ongoing topics in social capital research. We suggest that the state can play a positive role in the creation of social trust as a third-party enforcer of private agreements. This positive effect depends on the efficacy of the state. We also argue that the effects of the state on social trust will be unevenly distributed among majoritarian and minor…
Political Support
The analysis of the causes of political support for political institutions has been focused either on one-case studies that stress the relevance of individual variables or cross-national studies that stress the role of institutions. In this article, the authors suggest that to understand the logic of political support, it is necessary to combine both types of explanations. Using evidence from 17 European countries of the 2002 to 2003 European Soc…
Pre-emptive or Arbitrary
This article analyzes the determinants of the variation in the levels of lethal violence against civilians during a civil war. It departs from the usual explanations of this variation, advancing two different logics to account for civilians' victimization: strategic violence directed to avoid rebellions by targeting would-be political entrepreneurs and violence as a consequence of the breakdown of the state's authority. It uses a new data set on …
Ethnicity and Trust
This article reports the results of an online experiment conducted in two ethnically fragmented societies in Spain: the Basque Country and Catalonia. It tests the effect of co-ethnicity on trust and reciprocity. Ethnicity was manipulated in the experimental context using three ethnic attributes: ancestors' origin, language and name. Additionally, the article reports a comparison of general levels of trust in the two regions. No co-ethnicity effec…
The Unintended Consequences of Political Mobilization on Trust
Conflicting theories and mixed empirical results exist on the relationship between ethnic diversity and trust. This article argues that these mixed empirical results might be driven by contextual conditions. We conjecture that political competition could strengthen ethnic saliency and, in turn, salient ethnic identities can activate or intensify in-group trust and depress trust in members of other ethnic groups. We test this conjecture using the …
The Full Weight of the State
The literature on political violence has advanced some hypotheses concerning the forms and the causes of state-sanctioned violence and terror: why some governments make more widespread use of violence than others. However, one aspect of this question that has scarcely been considered concerns the conditions under which state violence achieves its goal, that is, to secure citizens' submission to the state. This article offers an analysis of the co…
The Problem of Forming Social Capital
jóvenes españoles.La falta de trabajo (no precario o seguro), y la carencia de viviendas baratas, producen una inseguridad añadida en la generación joven.A su vez, esa generación son hijos/as de padres que experimentaron la transición democrática.Muchos jóvenes no tienen un referente familiar claro.Los padres provienen de la generación de Mayo del 68, conformando una cohorte inmadura y narcisista.Quizás la falta de madurez de los padres ha produc…
The State and Trust
This article explores the effects of the state on the creation of social trust. It identifies four theories connecting these two variables. The first and probably most important one stresses the role of the state as a third-party punisher of free-riders, especially in large societies where people have continuous interactions with strangers. The second claims that citizens extrapolate state officers’ corruption levels to ordinary citizens’ trustwo…
Education and trust
To date, most research finds education to have a positive effect on trust. Education increases people’s social intelligence, making them better able to distinguish between trustworthy and opportunistic types. Alternatively, education allows people to attain privileged social status, making them more resistant to deceit and exploitation by opportunistic types. In this article we show that this is not always the case. The relationship between educa…
Land reform and peasant revolution. Evidence from 1930s Spain
Peace of Cemeteries
This article analyzes whether state repression in post-civil war situations can be explained by dynamics associated with previous civil wars. It claims that in post-civil war situations the state can more easily resort to indiscriminate repression against social groups, relying on information related to the civil war. Two civil war dynamics are tested: preemptive indiscriminate violence to eliminate opposition by the defeated population and retal…
Land reform and conflict before the Civil War
This article studies the impact of insecure property rights on the behaviour of owners of land before the Spanish Civil War. The theoretical literature on land reform argues that legal threats to the status quo determine agrarian organization, with owners selling land and moving to other asset classes or engaging in large‐scale substitution of sharecroppers and tenants with wage labourers. This study, which uses municipal data on tenant evictions…
The State and the Creation of an Environment for the Growing of Trust
There is a growing interest in the literature on trust and social capital in the analysis of the role of the State in the creation and destruction of trust. According to some authors, the intervention of the State crowds out trust instead of fostering it. In this article, the author shows that the intervention of the State as a third-party enforcer of agreements does not crowd out expectations of trust, but it does not create trust either. Howeve…
In Whom We Trust? The Development of Particularised Trust Inside Associations
Of the many discussions concerning the concept of social capital in recent years, the relation between membership in associations and the development of trust is one of the most controversial. The focus of these discussions has been the development of social trust inside associations. The problem of the failure to identify the relevant mechanisms involved in the alleged relation between participation in associations, and social trust, has been mu…
Ties that bind
There have been two main arguments concerning the effects of family relationships on social trust. The first claims that the intensity of the family relationship reduces the capacity of the family members to interact in the outside world, where social uncertainty prevails. The second considers that trust inside the family spills over into trust in strangers. There is a corollary to the first argument: intense family relationships, by reducing soc…
The state counts
Most analyses of the relationship between state institutions and interpersonal trust claim either that the state crowds out trust or that it helps to create trust, acting as a third-party enforcer of agreements. Actually, the relationship between the state and trust is much more complex. This article presents a theoretical model that predicts how trust will evolve in highly efficacious and low-efficacious states. Based on priors about other peopl…
Size and Virtue
The importance of the size of a political community for the development of civic virtue has usually been related to the advantages of small size in the possibility of direct democracy and the fulfilment of the classical ideal of freedom as governing and being governed by turn. While these are important variables for the development of civic virtue, in this article it is argued that small size also matters because it allows the development of civi…
Corruption and the Disparty in Levels of Political Support by Winners and Losers
Recent analyses of the determinants of levels of political support have stressed the role of institutions in producing the disparity in support by the winners and losers of an election. The authors claim that it is not only the countries' institutional structures that matter in determining this disparity but also how the institutions work. Specifically, they claim that the disparity between winners and losers is greater in countries with a high l…
Screening before Sanctioning
In modern political science, repeated elections are considered as the main mechanism of electoral accountability in democracies. More rarely, elections are considered as ways to select ‘good types’ of politicians. In this article it is argued that historical republican authors interpreted elections in this last sense. They viewed elections as a means to select what they often called the ‘natural aristocracy’, virtuous political leaders who would …
Las fuentes de la confianza social
Uno de los conceptos clave en el análisis del capital social es la confianza social. La confianza social o confianza generalizada se define como confianza en desconocidos. A pesar de su centralidad para el análisis del capital social, los mecanismos que relacionan la pertenencia a redes sociales con el desarrollo de confianza social están generalmente ausentes. En este artículo se presentan dos vías a través de las que tienen lugar este tipo de m…
Online Hate and Zeitgeist of Fear
Acts of terror lead to both a rise of an extended sense of fear that goes beyond the physical location of the attacks and to increased expressions of online hate. In this longitudinal study, we analyzed dynamics between the exposure to online hate and the fear of terrorism after the Paris attacks in November 13, 2015. We hypothesized that exposure to online hate is connected to a perceived Zeitgeist of fear (i.e., collective fear). In turn, the p…
Confianza y cooperación en ausencia del Estado
Normalmente se considera, tanto en la literatura sobre confianza como en la de capital social, que la confianza es un componente clave para la cooperación. En este artículo se analiza si la confianza puede promover la cooperación en ausencia de las instituciones del Estado. La conclusión es que en ese entorno el individuo no puede formar expectativas bien fundamentadas acerca de lo dignos de confianza que son los demás y, por ello, la cooperación…
Trust and Inequality of Opportunities
There is a vast literature on the effect of inequality on trust, establishing that equality must be a pre-condition for the emergence of trust. However, most empirical research either focuses on case studies or uses measures of income inequality, such as the Gini index. In this article, we argue that a measure of inequality of opportunities is preferable to focusing on inequality of outcomes, as it taps into the psychological foundations of trust…
Social trust and the stringency of public policies against the Covid-19 pandemic
One may wonder why countries have used different public policies to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. We argue that social trust could be the missing link in explaining why these public policies vary in stringency. Based on the logic of game theory, we draw the hypothesis that more social trust in a society means that less stringent policies are needed to abate the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical results at both country and individual levels confirm …
Sociología y cambio social
In Whom We Trust? The Development of Particularised Trust Inside Associations
Of the many discussions concerning the concept of social capital in recent years, the relation between membership in associations and the development of trust is one of the most controversial. The focus of these discussions has been the development of social trust inside associations. The problem of the failure to identify the relevant mechanisms involved in the alleged relation between participation in associations, and social trust, has been mu…
Las fuentes de la confianza social
Uno de los conceptos clave en el análisis del capital social es la confianza social. La confianza social o confianza generalizada se define como confianza en desconocidos. A pesar de su centralidad para el análisis del capital social, los mecanismos que relacionan la pertenencia a redes sociales con el desarrollo de confianza social están generalmente ausentes. En este artículo se presentan dos vías a través de las que tienen lugar este tipo de m…
The Dilemma of Social Democracy in 1914
In 1914, socialist parties voted in favour of war credits. This was a surprising decision given their pre-war commitment to the keeping of peace. The decision has usually been explained by the so-called chauvinist preferences of the socialist leaders. In this article, an alternative hypothesis is advanced. A game theoretic model is used to explain why socialist parties betrayed their pre-war commitments. It is maintained that the socialist partie…
The Problem of Forming Social Capital
Social capital is a concept which has only recently been incorporated into the social sciences. It has been used to explain a series of phenomena ranging from the creation of human capital and the eff
Problem of Forming Social Capital
Herreros examines from the ground up, and from first principles, how social capital is formed. He gives special attention to "particularized trust," the by-product of associational participation, and its relationship to generalized social trust. He argues that social capital, the resources drawn from obligations of reciprocity and information, derives from participation in social networks, including voluntary associations. The book uses game theo…
The Problem of Forming Social Capital
jóvenes españoles.La falta de trabajo (no precario o seguro), y la carencia de viviendas baratas, producen una inseguridad añadida en la generación joven.A su vez, esa generación son hijos/as de padres que experimentaron la transición democrática.Muchos jóvenes no tienen un referente familiar claro.Los padres provienen de la generación de Mayo del 68, conformando una cohorte inmadura y narcisista.Quizás la falta de madurez de los padres ha produc…
Screening before Sanctioning
In modern political science, repeated elections are considered as the main mechanism of electoral accountability in democracies. More rarely, elections are considered as ways to select ‘good types’ of politicians. In this article it is argued that historical republican authors interpreted elections in this last sense. They viewed elections as a means to select what they often called the ‘natural aristocracy’, virtuous political leaders who would …
The Full Weight of the State
The literature on political violence has advanced some hypotheses concerning the forms and the causes of state-sanctioned violence and terror: why some governments make more widespread use of violence than others. However, one aspect of this question that has scarcely been considered concerns the conditions under which state violence achieves its goal, that is, to secure citizens' submission to the state. This article offers an analysis of the co…
Confianza y cooperación en ausencia del Estado
Normalmente se considera, tanto en la literatura sobre confianza como en la de capital social, que la confianza es un componente clave para la cooperación. En este artículo se analiza si la confianza puede promover la cooperación en ausencia de las instituciones del Estado. La conclusión es que en ese entorno el individuo no puede formar expectativas bien fundamentadas acerca de lo dignos de confianza que son los demás y, por ello, la cooperación…
Size and Virtue
The importance of the size of a political community for the development of civic virtue has usually been related to the advantages of small size in the possibility of direct democracy and the fulfilment of the classical ideal of freedom as governing and being governed by turn. While these are important variables for the development of civic virtue, in this article it is argued that small size also matters because it allows the development of civi…
Political Support
The analysis of the causes of political support for political institutions has been focused either on one-case studies that stress the relevance of individual variables or cross-national studies that stress the role of institutions. In this article, the authors suggest that to understand the logic of political support, it is necessary to combine both types of explanations. Using evidence from 17 European countries of the 2002 to 2003 European Soc…
Corruption and the Disparty in Levels of Political Support by Winners and Losers
Recent analyses of the determinants of levels of political support have stressed the role of institutions in producing the disparity in support by the winners and losers of an election. The authors claim that it is not only the countries' institutional structures that matter in determining this disparity but also how the institutions work. Specifically, they claim that the disparity between winners and losers is greater in countries with a high l…
The State and the Development of Social Trust
The role of the state in the promotion of social or generalized trust is one of the most important ongoing topics in social capital research. We suggest that the state can play a positive role in the creation of social trust as a third-party enforcer of private agreements. This positive effect depends on the efficacy of the state. We also argue that the effects of the state on social trust will be unevenly distributed among majoritarian and minor…
The State and the Creation of an Environment for the Growing of Trust
There is a growing interest in the literature on trust and social capital in the analysis of the role of the State in the creation and destruction of trust. According to some authors, the intervention of the State crowds out trust instead of fostering it. In this article, the author shows that the intervention of the State as a third-party enforcer of agreements does not crowd out expectations of trust, but it does not create trust either. Howeve…
Social Trust, Social Capital and Perceptions of Immigration
Analyses of social capital and immigration have stressed the negative impact that culturally diverse societies have for the development of social trust. Ethnic heterogeneity, according to these studies, is associated with lower levels of social trust. However, social trust has not been studied as an independent variable in order to explain attitudes towards immigration. This article argues that societies with high levels of social capital facilit…
Pre-emptive or Arbitrary
This article analyzes the determinants of the variation in the levels of lethal violence against civilians during a civil war. It departs from the usual explanations of this variation, advancing two different logics to account for civilians' victimization: strategic violence directed to avoid rebellions by targeting would-be political entrepreneurs and violence as a consequence of the breakdown of the state's authority. It uses a new data set on …
Peace of Cemeteries
This article analyzes whether state repression in post-civil war situations can be explained by dynamics associated with previous civil wars. It claims that in post-civil war situations the state can more easily resort to indiscriminate repression against social groups, relying on information related to the civil war. Two civil war dynamics are tested: preemptive indiscriminate violence to eliminate opposition by the defeated population and retal…
The state counts
Most analyses of the relationship between state institutions and interpersonal trust claim either that the state crowds out trust or that it helps to create trust, acting as a third-party enforcer of agreements. Actually, the relationship between the state and trust is much more complex. This article presents a theoretical model that predicts how trust will evolve in highly efficacious and low-efficacious states. Based on priors about other peopl…
Ethnicity and Trust
This article reports the results of an online experiment conducted in two ethnically fragmented societies in Spain: the Basque Country and Catalonia. It tests the effect of co-ethnicity on trust and reciprocity. Ethnicity was manipulated in the experimental context using three ethnic attributes: ancestors' origin, language and name. Additionally, the article reports a comparison of general levels of trust in the two regions. No co-ethnicity effec…
Ties that bind
There have been two main arguments concerning the effects of family relationships on social trust. The first claims that the intensity of the family relationship reduces the capacity of the family members to interact in the outside world, where social uncertainty prevails. The second considers that trust inside the family spills over into trust in strangers. There is a corollary to the first argument: intense family relationships, by reducing soc…
Land reform and peasant revolution. Evidence from 1930s Spain
Land reform and conflict before the Civil War
This article studies the impact of insecure property rights on the behaviour of owners of land before the Spanish Civil War. The theoretical literature on land reform argues that legal threats to the status quo determine agrarian organization, with owners selling land and moving to other asset classes or engaging in large‐scale substitution of sharecroppers and tenants with wage labourers. This study, which uses municipal data on tenant evictions…
The Unintended Consequences of Political Mobilization on Trust
Conflicting theories and mixed empirical results exist on the relationship between ethnic diversity and trust. This article argues that these mixed empirical results might be driven by contextual conditions. We conjecture that political competition could strengthen ethnic saliency and, in turn, salient ethnic identities can activate or intensify in-group trust and depress trust in members of other ethnic groups. We test this conjecture using the …
Education and trust
To date, most research finds education to have a positive effect on trust. Education increases people’s social intelligence, making them better able to distinguish between trustworthy and opportunistic types. Alternatively, education allows people to attain privileged social status, making them more resistant to deceit and exploitation by opportunistic types. In this article we show that this is not always the case. The relationship between educa…
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