Table 2. Generalized trust and political institutions: A pooled panel analysis.
| Parameters | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | Model 5 |
| Generalized trust, t–k | .84*** (.05) | .81*** (.05) | .81*** (.05) | .81*** (.05) | .66*** (.06) |
| Legal property rights, t–k | −8.80*** (2.18) | −8.74*** (2.13) | −8.61*** (2.15) | −8.41*** (2.14) | −7.21*** (2.21) |
| Legal property rights2, t–k | .71*** (.17) | .66*** (.17) | .66*** (.17) | .59*** (.17) | .53** (.18) |
| State regulation, t–k | 1.51* (.73) | 2.02** (.73) | 1.98** (.74) | 1.86** (.73) | 1.37* (.74) |
| Worker’s rights, t–k | 1.63 (1.00) | 1.51 (.99) | 1.55 (.99) | 1.17 (1.00) | 1.00 (.98) |
| Size of government, t–k | −1.11** (.42) | −.69 (.44) | −.71 (.44) | −.70 (.44) | −.24 (.46) |
| Power-sharing capacity, t–k | −1.38 (1.04) | −1.25 (1.02) | −1.22 (1.02) | −1.71 (1.04) | −1.57 (1.04) |
| Income inequality, t–k | −.19** (.07) | −.20** (.07) | −.21** (.07) | −.21** (.08) | |
| Ethnolinguistic homogeneity, t–k | −.02 (.04) | −.04 (.04) | −.03 (.04) | ||
| ln(gross domestic product), t–k | 1.52* (.78) | .82 (.84) | |||
| Monarchy | 2.53* (1.52) | ||||
| Nordic | 7.36*** (2.29) | ||||
| Temperature | −.11 (.09) | ||||
| Pronoun-drop | .15 (1.67) | ||||
| Former communist | −2.29 (2.02) | ||||
| Constant | 25.57** (8.61) | 29.85** (8.58) | 31.47*** (9.04) | 23.72** (9.80) | 28.74** (10.45) |
| R2 | .84 | .84 | .84 | .85 | .86 |
Standard errors in parentheses.
*
p<.05;
**
p<.01;
***
p<.001 (one-tailed tests).
No. countries = 74; No. observations = 174.