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Muhlberger, Peter. "Political Social Trust Vs. Generalized Trust in Political Participation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62435_index.html>

Muhlberger, P. , 2003-08-16 "Political Social Trust Vs. Generalized Trust in Political Participation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62435_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: A key operationalization of the concept of social capital is the degree to which people believe they can, in general, trust people. Social capital theory maintains that generalized interpersonal trust should promote civic engagement, but research results to date indicate that trust influences engagement either weakly or not at all. Generalized trust may not show an influence on civic engagement because it may contain features that both promote and inhibit collective action. If people trust political and community leaders they may believe there is no need to participate. This paper seeks to find a strong, positive relationship between trust and collective action by developing a measure of specifically political social trust. This measure specifies that other community members are being trusted to abide by norms of political cooperation. The measure is tested using a representative mail survey of 1200 Pittsburgh residents. Ordered probit and regression analyses find political trust superior to generalized trust in predicting reported motivation to act on community problems, participation in organizations in which community problems are discussed, and participation in organizations that take action on community problems. Generalized trust proves superior to political social trust in predicting self-reported attendance at community planning meetings, but such meetings are primarily about communicating concerns to community leaders, not collective political action.

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