Does military conscription reduce the distance between ordinary citizen and state? Decades after its abolition, numerous European policy makers from across political spectrum advocate reintroduction of to foster civic virtues, despite a lack empirical evidence in this respect. Leveraging quasi-random variation reforms 15 countries, we find that cohorts men drafted just before abolition display ...

Abstract Motivation Most studies of the normative roots political trust argue that they stem from policy performance rather than cultural orientation. That sits at odds with observation institutional trust—that is, citizens’ confidence in public agencies—is high Bangladesh and Nepal despite poor performance. Purpose The article assesses influence orientation citizens on trust. Approach Methods ...

Can we trust without any reliable truth information? Most trust architectures work in a similar way: a trustor makes some observations, rates the trustee, and makes recommendations to his friends. When he faces a new case, he checks his trust table and uses recommendations given by trustworthy friends to decide whether he will undertake a given action. But what if the observations that are used...

Three studies contrasting Indian and American negotiators tested hypotheses derived from theory proposing why there are cultural differences in trust and how cultural differences in trust influence negotiation strategy. Study 1 (a survey) documented that Indian negotiators trust their counterparts less than American negotiators. Study 2 (a negotiation simulation) linked American and Indian nego...

This article aims at contributing to the understanding of the trust–control nexus. The objective is to bring the discussion around the relationship between both concepts a step further by identifying common foundations, distinctive mechanisms and key implications relevant for theorybuilding and empirical research on trust and control. First, the concept of trust and related concepts are introdu...

The inherent weakness of the data on user ratings collected from web, such as sparsity and cold-start, has limited the data analysis capability and prediction accuracy in recommender systems (RS). To alleviate this problem, trust has been incorporated in collaborative filtering (CF) approaches with encouraging experimental results. In this paper, we propose a computational model for trust-based...

Abstract We examine the cultural context for individual's trust in public institutions. To shed some light on possible explanations from a more comparative perspective and cover wider set of aspects, we use indicators dimensions by Kaasa et al . (2014) based Hofstede's (1980) approach. Multilevel regression analysis is conducted with individual-level data two waves European Social Survey (2008,...