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This paper tests the hypotheses that the tide of globalization undermines or reinforces the traditional types of social capital. Using the 2006 AsiaBarometer Survey data and applying two-level logit regression analysis, this paper found that social capital related to sense of trust or human nature and interpersonal relations can be augmented by globalization, while social capital regarding familialism and mindfulness can be weakened.
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Notes
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For more information, see the Heritage Foundation’s web site, http://www.heritage.org/
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Retrieved 12 May 2007, from World Development Indicator, http://web.worldbank.org/ The values used are for 2004 because the data for Singapore was available only up to the year as of the date of retrieval. The value for Taiwan is inferred from the percentage of Internet users in 2004, published by the National Statistics of Taiwan, http://eng.stat.gov.tw/
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Alesina et al. (2003).
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The values used are for 2006. Available from Freedom HouseWeb site: http://www.freedomhouse.org/
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This concept of representation is based on the original argument done by Edmond Burke, a representative in the British House of Commons in the 1770s (Matsusaka 2004).
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Ruut Veenhoven pointed out this thought.
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The authors thank the participants at the AsiaBarometer Workshop and Symposium, Tokyo, 14–15 December 2006 and at the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Tokyo, 9–13 July 2007 for their helpful comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Ruut Veenhoven for his suggestions about theoretical aspects and Willem E. Saris and Wolfgang Jagodzinski for their comments on methodological parts.
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Appendix 1. Descriptive Statistics
Appendix 1. Descriptive Statistics
Variables | Mean | Median | SD | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dependent variables | |||||
Trust | 0.452 | 0 | 0.498 | 1 | 0 |
Goodwill | 0.596 | 1 | 0.491 | 1 | 0 |
Connections | 0.164 | 0 | 0.370 | 1 | 0 |
Mindfulness | 0.161 | 0 | 0.367 | 1 | 0 |
Independent variables | |||||
Individual level | |||||
Gender | 0.494 | 0 | 0.500 | 1 | 0 |
Age | 2.049 | 2 | 0.703 | 3 | 1 |
Marital status | 0.717 | 1 | 0.451 | 1 | 0 |
Education | 1.917 | 2 | 0.807 | 3 | 1 |
Income | 1.750 | 2 | 0.768 | 3 | 1 |
Religion | 0.496 | 0 | 0.500 | 1 | 0 |
Globalization forces index | 1.432 | 1 | 1.000 | 3 | 0 |
Digital connectivity index | 2.501 | 2 | 2.439 | 6 | 0 |
Personal contact index | 0.994 | 1 | 1.292 | 6 | 0 |
English | 0.928 | 1 | 0.925 | 3 | 0 |
Societal level | |||||
Linguistic fractionalization | 0.203 | 0.21 | 0.162 | 0.502793 | 0.002 |
Religious fractionalization | 0.6 | 0.656 | 0.091 | 0.684494 | 0.419 |
Political right | 18.563 | 17 | 14.894 | 37 | 2 |
Economic freedom index | 69.253 | 70.6 | 14.232 | 90.9 | 50 |
Net user | 359.690 | 502.180 | 229.514 | 656.7924 | 72.522 |
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Inoguchi, T., Mikami, S., Fujii, S. (2017). Social Capital in East Asia: Comparative Political Culture in Confucian Societies. In: Inoguchi, T., Tokuda, Y. (eds) Trust with Asian Characteristics. Trust, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2305-7_3
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