Trust with Asian Characteristics : Interpersonal and Institutional

This volume, edited by a political scientist and a practicing medical doctor, is organized into two parts: interpersonal and institutional trust. To gauge trust both interpersonal and institutional in 29 Asian societies, the AsiaBarometer survey, the best-and only-available such data source in the w...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Inoguchi, Takashi (Editor), Tokuda, Yasuharu (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesTrust, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811023057
ISSN2509-7679 ;
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-2305-7
Physical DescriptionXII, 210 p. 36 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2.Interpersonal Trust
  • 2.1. Social Capital in Ten Asian Societies
  • 2.2. Social Capital in East Asia: Comparative Political Culture in Confucian Societies
  • 2.3. Quantifying Social Capital in Central and South Asia: Are There Democratic, Developmental, and Regionalizing Potentials?
  • 2.4. Psychometric Approach to Social Capital: Using AsiaBarometer Survey Data in 29 Asian Societies
  • 2.5. Interpersonal Mistrust and Unhappiness among Japanese People
  • 2.6 Interpersonal Trust and Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study in Japan
  • 2.7 Individual and Country-Level Effects of Social Trust on Happiness: The Asia Barometer Survey
  • 3. Institutional Trust
  • 3.1. Government Performance and Confidence in Political Institutions
  • 3.2. Sociotropic and Pocketbook Politics in Japan
  • 3.3. Influence of Income on Health Status and Healthcare Utilization in Working Adults: an Illustration of Health among the Working Poor in Japan
  • 3.4 The relationship between trust in mass media and the healthcare system and individual health: evidence from the AsiaBarometer Survey.