to form and maintain social harmony and solidarity. This study addresses certain issues regarding trust and solidarity as … relationship between the level of trust of citizens and organizations in public and state institutions and the degree of solidarity …Increasing trust in public and state institutions has been a challenging problem worldwide. It is especially imperative …

For a cross-section of 123 European regions, we find evidence for a positive effect of generalized trust on regional … recent literature on the effects of climate on historic trust levels. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of … be better explained by a positive influence of trust on innovation and spatial clustering of trust. …