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- Title
Social Trust Fosters an Ability to Help Those in Need: Jewish Refugees in the Nazi Era.
- Authors
Bjørnskov, Christian
- 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.
- Subjects
GERMANY; SOCIAL aspects of trust; RESCUE of Jews, 1939-1945; JEWISH refugees; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; NAZI history; PUBLIC institutions -- Social aspects; WORLD War II; HISTORY of collective action; TWENTIETH century; JEWISH history; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.
- Publication
Political Studies, 2015, Vol 63, Issue 4, p951
- ISSN
0032-3217
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9248.12120