The effect of generalised trust on environmental group membership is investigated from a collective action perspective. A cross-national analysis is conducted. It shows a robust and consistent, positive effect of generalised trust on environmental group membership. Drawing on an existing model...

Does generalized social trust help solve large-N collective action problems? This paper argues so, offering a novel explanation for the relationship: People tend to cooperate if they expect others to be cooperating, which implies that people holding generalized social trust more readily...

The aim of this paper is to explore whether the concept of social capital as popularized by Robert Putnam is a good social science concept. Taken Gerring’s work on concept evaluation as the starting point, the paper first presents a set of criteria for conceptual ‘goodness’ and discusses...