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Korean Journal of Policy Studies
Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University

Korean J. Policy Stud. 2020; 35(1):53-73

pISSN: 1225-5017, eISSN: 2765-2807

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52372/kjps35103

Article

Nonprofit Membership and Interpersonal Trust in Diversity

Luo Ji1, Xie Shun2, Liu Kai3, Mian Asad Amin4
1Luo Ji, is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China. Email: luojijiluo2014@hotmail.com. We thank the participants and scholars at the 2019 Seoul University Graduate School of Public Administration conference and the 2019 English Workshop of Nonprofit Studies at Tsinghua University, especially Professor Zhang Zhibin of Flinders University for all their suggestions.
2Xie Shun is a professor in the School of Public Administration at Guangxi University in Nanning, China. E-mail: xieshun64@sina.com.
3Liu Kai is a PhD student in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia. E-mail: 602346485@qq.com.
4Mian Asad Amin is a PhD student, in the Business School at Guangxi University in Nanning, China. E-mail: asad_amin146@yahoo.com.
*Corresponding Author: E-mail: luojijiluo2014@hotmail.com.

© Copyright 2020 Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Nov 18, 2019; Revised: Nov 21, 2019; Revised: Jan 30, 2020; Accepted: Feb 03, 2020

Published Online: Apr 30, 2020

Abstract

Diverse values and unified interpersonal trust have both been stressed as prerequisites in social governance, although contradictions can arise in trying to achieve both. Using cross-national data of more than 29,000 samples from the World Value Survey and relying on the circle and layer structure of governance consensus, we investigate the extent to which the participation of nonprofits in social governance influences interpersonal trust and value diversity. Our findings show that nonprofits increase the perception of fairness in social governance and that they contribute to cultural diversity.

Keywords: interpersonal trust; diversity; nonprofit membership; circle and layer structure