Social Trust Fosters an Ability to Help Those in Need: Jewish Refugees in the Nazi Era

Christian Bjørnskov

doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12120

Social Trust Fosters an Ability to Help Those in Need: Jewish Refugees in the Nazi Era

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Abstract

An ignored aspect of efforts to save Jewish citizens in occupied Europe during the Second World War is that large-scale rescue arguably constitutes a collective action problem. Due to Nazi occupation, no formal institutions contributed to solving this problem. Exploring the differences in rescue rates across all 30 occupied countries shows that the informal institution of social trust contributed to solving the collective action problem and strongly affected rescue rates.

Original language	English
Journal	Political Studies
Volume	63
Issue	4
Pages (from-to)	951-974
ISSN	0032-3217
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12120
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Social trust
Institutional quality
Path dependence
Second World War

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