caa a22 4500 606168311 CHVBK 20210128100706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7 Does social distrust always lead to a strongersupport for government intervention? [Elektronische Daten] [Hans Pitlik, Ludek Kouba] The paper considers ‘trust' as an empirical determinant of individual support for government intervention. The central notion is that the influence of generalized trust on policy attitudes is conditional on confidence in both state actors and major companies. The starting point is the idea that individuals who generally distrust other persons have a stronger taste for the regulation of economic activities, while people with high interpersonal trust are in favor of less stringent regulatory control. Yet, people who do not trust unknown others also tend to mistrust government and private companies. If mistrust in state actors dominates, we should not necessarily expect stronger interventionist preferences. Estimating the determinants of interventionist attitudes using data from the World Values Survey/European Values Study for approximately 130,000 individuals in forty OECD- and EU-countries, we find evidence that the impact of social trust on government intervention attitudes is conditional on institutional trust. Confidence in major companies appears to have a stronger effect on preference formation than trust in state actors. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Social trust nationallicence Institutional trust nationallicence Government regulation nationallicence Preference formation nationallicence Pitlik Hans Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Arsenal Objekt 20, 1030, Vienna, Austria aut Kouba Ludek Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University, Zemědělská 1, 61300, Brno, The Czech Republic aut Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 355-377 0048-5829 163:3-4<355 2015 163 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-015-0258-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pitlik Hans Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Arsenal Objekt 20, 1030, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kouba Ludek Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University, Zemědělská 1, 61300, Brno, The Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 163/3-4(2015-06-01), 355-377 0048-5829 163:3-4<355 2015 163 11127