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A dominant answer in the literature for what erodes this resource is corruption. When citizens perceive that public officials are acting dishonestly, they infer that the wider society is untrustworthy (Uslaner, 2002; Rothstein, 2011; Rothstein and Stolle, 2008). Rothstein and Uslaner (2005) argue that corruption and social trust are linked through perceptions of fairness: corruption signals that the system is rigged in favor of the connected, undermining the belief that others will play by the rules. Similarly, You (2005) emphasizes that corruption generates perceptions of unfairness that erode the foundation of generalized trust. This creates a “vicious circle” where corruption breeds distrust, which in turn facilitates more corruption by undermining collective enforcement of norms (della Porta, 2000; Rose-Ackerman and Palifka, 2016). Empirical research has documented this negative association across diverse contexts (Chang and Chu, 2006; Morris and Klesner, 2010; Richey, 2010; Seligson, 2002).
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