Citizens' Confidence in Government and Inefficient Public Spending. Is there a Trust Trap?
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Keywords
Inefficient Government Spending; Confidence; Social Capital; Trust Trap.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-SOC-2021-11-01 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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