We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is civic engagement and political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper we contribute to the investiga...

High levels of self-reported trust in government found China has invited skepticism about the authenticity survey results. To address this question, we examine implicit political trust, an automatic, intuitive orientation toward government. Using Single-Target Implicit Association Test, that Chinese public holds is unrelated to self-reported, explicit trust. Whereas early socialization processe...