WVS: Trust in those met for the first time – world map
The World Values Survey Wave 6 came out yesterday. I did a post on trust in others, but wanted to visualize it too. Dark is more trust. Here are the means for all:
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WVS: Trust in others – Azerbaijan and world
More on methodology here. I’m currently working on 2 different papers that deal with trust of others in Azerbaijan, so I was very excited to see this. As per what literature says, Azerbaijanis have very low trust in strangers and very high trust in family. And here’s the means of the world. Again, 1…
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Identification with local and global – Azerbaijan
In the 2012 social networks and media survey done by CRRC in Azerbaijan, respondents were asked about belonging to various groups. ETA: here’s the breakdown by region – Baku, regional cities, villages 1 = strongly disagree and 4 = strongly agree. All differences are statistically significant. Capital and rural people much more likely to view…
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PS – on trust in Azerbaijan
As a quick follow up to this post, here are the frequencies of trust in various groups in Azerbaijan from the 2012 social capital and media CRRC study. No comparisons exist for the other countries.
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Trust and Relying on Others in the Caucasus
I’m working on a project right now that looks at trust, so I wanted to share some results from the 2013 Caucasus Barometer. Here’s some work on trust from 2012. And more from the EBRD Life in Transitions study. First, the generalized trust question – there is scholarly debate about how people interpret this question,…
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Trust and Gender in the Caucasus
I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about interpersonal trust (using EBRD data). One of my arguments is that Azerbaijanis have very low interpersonal trust. After a conversation with a girlfriend, I had the idea to look at gender differences in trust as well. This is with CRRC data. First, without gender, you…
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Interpersonal trust in Europe and Eurasia
Interpersonal trust is, arguably, the most important concept for a society. Interpersonal trust is understood as the general inclination of people to trust their fellow citizens (Hall, 2002). Interpersonal trust is related to EVERYTHING – democratization, economic wellbeing… you name it. I did an analysis of some of the trust measures in the ERBD Life…
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Political Institutional Trust in Armenia
This is a study that I did with the 2008 (collected in fall) Caucasus Barometer. As a warning, it is pretty stats-heavy. If you’re going to cite this paper, please use this citation: Pearce, K.E. (2010). Political trust in the post-coup attempt Republic of Armenia. Demokratizatsiya, 19, 58-83. Abstract: This paper presents a model of…