scholarly journals Socio-Economic Modernization and the “Crisis of Trust” in China: A Multi-level Analysis of General and Particular Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 152 (3) ◽  
pp. 923-949
Author(s):  
H. Christoph Steinhardt ◽  
Jan Delhey
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Contextual Effect ◽  
General Trust ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic Modernization ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract Theorists have long disagreed about the impact of socio-economic modernization on social trust. The pessimistic school asserts that modernization undermines the structural conditions for high levels of trust. The optimistic account argues that it delivers economic security and human empowerment and thereby enhances trust. Adapting these contrasting theories to the specific case of China, this article puts them to the test with survey data from the World Values Survey. Exploiting the condition of highly uneven levels of regional development, combined with common political institutions and a shared cultural heritage, the study conducts a multi-level analysis of survey data from over 1900 individuals and a wide range of regional statistics from 61 county-level units. While trust in family members and particular trust beyond the family are unaffected by levels of regional modernization, we find robust evidence to suggest that regional modernization is associated with substantially higher levels of general trust. The results further suggests that higher general trust in more developed regions does not lead to an enhanced conversion of particular into general trust. This indicates that general trust is nurtured through the contextual effect of residing in more modern social environments. Overall, these findings provide substantial support for modernization optimists and lend themselves to a reinterpretation of a widely discussed “trust crisis” in China, which to date is often interpreted according to the pessimistic view of modernization.

A Multi-Level Analysis of the Change in Teaching Methods in Post-Communist Romania

2013 ◽  
pp. 181-203
Author(s):  
Oana Gauca
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Analysis

The chapter provides an overview of the changes suffered by the secondary and higher education systems in the communism to post-communism transition and discusses the transformation of the teaching methods and the impact of these transformations. Most teachers aspire to make critical thinking the main objective of their instruction; most of them do not realize that to develop as thinkers students must pass through stages of development in critical thinking. The conclusions point to the fact that most teachers are unaware of the levels of intellectual development that students go through as they improve as thinkers. The research shows that significant gains in the intellectual quality of student work will not be achieved if teachers do not recognize that skilled critical thinking develops only if properly cultivated and only through predictable stages.

scholarly journals The impact of classroom design on pupils' learning: Final results of a holistic, multi-level analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 118-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Barrett ◽  
Fay Davies ◽  
Yufan Zhang ◽  
Lucinda Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Design ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Analysis

scholarly journals Latin America: The Road to Coronacrisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
N. M. Yakovleva ◽  
P. P. Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

Among all the regions of the world, Latin America has been the most vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. The COVID-19 pandemic not only exposed the weaknesses of national health systems, but also served as a catalyst for the crisis socio-economic phenomena that have developed in the region over the past decade. The impact of the pandemic should serve Latin America as a clear lesson and motivate the local political and business establishment to make a significant adjustment to the content of the regional development strategy. It is logical, in our opinion, to raise the question of rethinking the role of the state in public life, the development of a modern, meeting the requirements of the moment, the Latin American concept of epidemiological and socio-economic security. In the post-covid period, at the center of public attention and targeted government efforts ought to be the challenges of radically improving health care through the priority development of those sectors of the economy that can provide diversification and, as a result, increase the level of crisis-sustainability of Latin American states. First of all, they should focus on the manufacturing industry, including the production of a wide range of medicines and equipment, as well as the sectors that ensure the development and modernization of socio-economic infrastructure: utilities, transport, alternative energy, telecommunications. In the field of international relations, the importance of cooperation with those States that have pioneered the development of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccines has increased significantly. In this context, it must be mentioned the interest that the registration in the Russian Federation of the first domestic vaccine Sputnik V provoked in Latin America.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC SECURITY MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AS OBJECTS OF THE STATE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

MEST Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
Nataliia Zachosova ◽  
Zinaida Zyvko ◽  
Oleksii Koval
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security System ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

The need to form a system of economic security for the effective operation of financial institutions is determined. Peculiarities of ensuring economic security of different types of financial institutions are found out, characteristic features of functional systems of economic security of financial intermediaries are revealed. It is offered to understand the management of economic security of financial institutions as a direction of management activities aimed at achieving a high level of protection of the institution's resources from the negative impact of internal and external threats by implementing a wide range of management decisions to use available opportunities and resources while providing financial services. The basics of the mechanism of economic security management of financial institutions are formed. It is assumed that the organization of the economic security system of a financial institution is carried out in several stages, such as the formation of the economic security system, ensuring the economic security system, identification, assessment, ranking of threats, and development of countermeasures; assessing the level of readiness of institutions to implement a mechanism for managing economic security; assessment of the level of economic security, development of management decisions. It is determined that the purpose of economic security management is to achieve the maximum possible level of realization of the institution's interests and meet the interests and needs of clients with optimal resource costs to minimize the impact of threats that accompany the activities of institutions.

Multi-Level Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
William B. Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich History ◽  
Level Analysis

This chapter broadens the perspective on causes of failures, enabling the deeper analyses of subsequent chapters addressing proximate, distal, and ultimate causes. The rich history of multi-level analysis and modeling is briefly reviewed, citing key contributions by a wide range of research disciplines. Numerous applications of the multi-level framework in a variety of domains, including healthcare delivery, academia, traffic congestion, and air transport are discussed, including the insights gained from use of the framework. An overall methodology for applying this framework is presented and elaborated. The application of this methodology to the line of reasoning throughout this book is summarized.

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