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В Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization опубликована статья Дениса Иванова “Institutional reforms and social trust: Quasi-experimental evidence from the Caucasian states”.

Abstract. I study  the effect of institutional quality on social trust. As a source of exogenous variation, I consider the natural experiment of institutional reforms in the post-Soviet nation of Georgia following the 2003 Rose Revolution. I examine the level of social trust among Armenians and Azeris, the two ethnic groups that were largely uninvolved in the revolutionary events, and whose homelands have been partitioned between Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan by the arbitrarily drawn boundaries inherited from the Soviet era. I show that people who were exposed to postrevolutionary Georgian institutions have higher levels of social trust. They also have higher levels of confidence in state institutions, but not higher intragroup cohesion. The findings suggest that improvement in institutional quality is important in fostering social trust.
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