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In National Identity and Partisan Polarization, Eric M. Uslaner examines how national identity has become a central issue in political and social life across the world. Questions of identity-who should be counted as a "true member" of a society and who deserves assistance from the government-have displaced other social and economic issues across nations in many countries. This study considers the role of identity theoretically and in the Unite...

This book provides a much needed overview of state-of-the-art trust scholarship, its findings and controversies~The volume is global in its outlook, with discussions of the roots of social cohesion, especially in multicultural societies and countries with issues of immigration~Contributors include the most recognized experts in trust research, from political science, economics, sociology, and other fields such as public health

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A Stanford University Press classic.

This book argues that corruption levels today depend largely upon the level of education in a country over a century ago.

This book argues that corruption levels today depend largely upon the level of education in a country over a century ago.

It seeks to explain why trust, in decline in the US, matters for societies.

By examining social networks in North America, Europe and Australia, this book argues segregation, not diversity reduces trust between people.

Generalized trust - faith in people you do not know - is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet many now worry that an increasingly diverse society is a threat to trust and altruism. Eric M. Uslaner argues that it is segregation not diversity that makes people less trusting.

How legislators pursue their policy agenda and represent their constituents

It seeks to explain why trust, in decline in the US, matters for societies.

Uslaner argues that economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust fuel corruption.

Based on cross-national aggregate analyses, Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust.