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Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community

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Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy

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Human Development Report

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Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation

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The quality of government

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Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies

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Modernization and Postmodernization

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The Sociology of Georg Simmel

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Trust: making and breaking cooperative relations

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Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action

1993 • 3,382 citations

The Moral Basis of a Backward Society.

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Trust as a Social Reality

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The Moral Foundations of Trust

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The functions of social conflict

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Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital

1997 • 2,389 citations

Trust and commitment in the United States and Japan

1994 • 2,219 citations

Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

1999 • 2,212 citations

Who trusts others?

2002 • 2,164 citations

Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

1999 • 2,149 citations

The Moral Foundations of Trust

2002 • 2,034 citations

Political Trust and Trustworthiness

2000 • 1,775 citations

Habits of the Heart

1986 • 1,534 citations

The downside of social capital

1996 • 1,312 citations

Gifts and Exchanges

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Social Capital and Democracy: An Interdependent Relationship

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Social and Unsocial Capital: A Review Essay of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work

1996 • 863 citations

Trust and Taxpaying: Testing the Heuristic Approach to Collective Action

1998 • 776 citations

Democracy and Association

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Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft

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Trust, well-being and democracy

1999 • 676 citations

The Problem of Trust

1997 • 663 citations

Trust, Distrust and Skepticism: Popular Evaluations of Civil and Political Institutions in Post-Communist Societies

1997 • 656 citations

Human Development Report 2002

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The theory of human development: A cross‐cultural analysis

2003 • 619 citations

Democracy and Trust

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Democracy and association

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Who trusts?: The origins of social trust in seven societies

2003 • 581 citations

Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

2003 • 574 citations

Are All Associations Alike?

1998 • 473 citations

Democracy and Trust

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Social and Political Trust in Established Democracies

1999 • 455 citations

The Problem of Trust

1997 • 453 citations

Social Capital and European Democracy

2008 • 444 citations

Human Development Report 1996

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Democracy and social capital

1999 • 397 citations

Trust and Governance

1999 • 394 citations

Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective

2002 • 381 citations

Trust in government.

1999 • 361 citations

Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910–1940

1999 • 310 citations

Producing and Consuming Trust

2000 • 288 citations

Social Capital, Impartiality and the Welfare State: An Institutional Approach

2003 • 278 citations

Trust and Emerging Democracy

1996 • 198 citations

Adaptive Political Attitudes: Duty, Trust, and Fear as Monitors of Tax Policy

1998 • 170 citations

Social Capital and Racial Inequality in America

2003 • 159 citations

Social capital and democracy in modern Europe

2008 • 157 citations

Trust, voluntary association and workable democracy: the contemporary American discourse of civil society

1999 • 117 citations

Effects of urban residence on interpersonal trust and helping behavior.

1978 • 106 citations

Civil Society and Political Context in Central America

1998 • 75 citations

Voluntary Associations and Democratic Attitudes: Value Congruence as a Causal Mechanism

2003 • 53 citations