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The Paradox of Diversity

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The focus of this book is on the role voluntary organizations play in generating generalized trust , and in the enhancement and maintenance of a democratic political culture . Voluntary organizations are not only supposed to have an institutional impact by challenging governance structures, but they also arguably instill civic-mindedness in people who participate in activities. However, bonding associations where ethnic ties predominate are supposed to have a negative socialization effect on their participants. This is opposed to bridging voluntary organizations, where ethnic bonds are surpassed. This chapter discusses why interethnic contact in organizations should explain generalized trust . It embeds the research questions in previous work and elaborates the rationale of the research design .

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Notes

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    To be conceptually precise, the generalized trust question taps into the trustworthiness of others rather than the trusting behavior of the respondent. To say that one trusts others is synonymous with saying that you trust others to behave in an expected manner (Hardin 2002: 31).

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    Putnam (2007) recently acknowledged this but, confusingly, his constrict theory only predicts negative outcomes (Van der Meer and Tolsma 2014).

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    For a similar argument on ethnocentrism see Hooghe (2003).

  4. 4.

    Similarly, optimism might be affected by early socialization. Again, we are not interested here in the sources of optimism.

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    However, poor language skills among first-generation minorities are not to be blamed entirely on them since initially they were not supposed to settle permanently in Europe (Castles and Miller 2003). Language acquisition in the Netherlands only started to become a policy priority in the 1980s (Höhne 2013).

  6. 6.

    I asked for membership lists, but my request was refused by many board members.

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