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Kenneth Newton
Researcher at University of Southampton
Publications - 65
Citations - 7943
Kenneth Newton is an academic researcher from University of Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Social capital. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 65 publications receiving 7398 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth Newton include University of Essex.
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Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust: Global Pattern or Nordic Exceptionalism?
Jan Delhey,Kenneth Newton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of variations in the level of generalized social trust (defined here as the belief that others will not deliberately or knowingly do us harm, if they can avoid it, and will look after our interests, if this is possible) in 60 nations of the world showed that trust is integral part of a tight syndrome of social, political and economic conditions.
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Trust, social capital, civil society, and democracy
TL;DR: The importance of trust has long been emphasised by social and political theorists from Locke and Tocqueville to Putnam and civil society theorists as mentioned in this paper, however, individual survey data casts substantial doubt on this powerful tradition of thought.
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Social Capital and Democracy
TL;DR: In this article, three models of social capital and the forms of trust and democracy associated with them are considered, and the role of voluntary associations as a foundation for social capital, arguing that their importance may be overstated in the classical Tocquevillean model.
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How General Is Trust in “Most People”? Solving the Radius of Trust Problem
TL;DR: Generalized trust has become a paramount topic throughout the social sciences, in its own right and as the key civic component of social capital as discussed by the authors, and cross-national research relies on the stan...
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Who trusts?: The origins of social trust in seven societies
Jan Delhey,Kenneth Newton +1 more
TL;DR: The authors identified six main theories of the determinants of social trust and tested them against survey data from seven societies, 1999-2001, and found that three of the six theories of trust fare rather poo...