relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3592/
title: Bridging or bonding? Preferences for redistribution and social capital in Russia
creator: Borisova, Ekaterina
creator: Govorun, Andrei
creator: Ivanov, Denis
subject: DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
subject: HB Economic Theory
description: Does bridging or bonding social capital matter for redistribution preferences? Existing literature demonstrates causal link between measures of social capital and such preferences but does it mostly for developed countries with good enforcement of formal rules and without a distinction between two completely different types of social capital. We argue that welfare state relies on contributions from an immense number of anonymous citizens, thus attitudes towards strangers, i.e. generalized trust and solidarity should be salient. Using two surveys of about 34,000 and 37,000 Russians we prove this proposition showing the importance of the bridging type but not the bonding one. Instrumenting social capital with education, climate and distance from Moscow we deal with endogeneity concerns. Additionally we claim that connection between social capital and redistribution preferences for less developed countries such as Russia could be similar to developed countries.
publisher: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
date: 2016-11
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nd
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3592/1/EIC_WP_5_2016.pdf
identifier:   Borisova, Ekaterina and Govorun, Andrei and Ivanov, Denis  Bridging or bonding? Preferences for redistribution and social capital in Russia.  EIC working paper series  #5/2016    IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca    ISSN 2279-6894.