[Auers, Daunis (2015): Comparative Politics and Government of the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the 21st Century. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bennich-Björkman, Li (2006): Building Post-communist States: Political Corruption and Strategies of Party Formation in Estonia and Latvia, in Kn. Sven Eliaeson (ed.), Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe: Essays in Honour of Edmund Mokrzycki. New York: Routledge.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bennich-Björkman, Li (2007): The cultural roots of Estonia’s successful transition: how historical legacies shaped the 1990 s. East European Politics & Societies, Vol. 21.10.1177/0888325407299785]Search in Google Scholar
[Boda, Z. – Medve-Balint, G. (2014): Does Institutional Trust in East Central Europe Differ from Western Europe? European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities 3 (2): 1–17.]Search in Google Scholar
[Bühlmann, M. – Kunz, R. (2011): Confidence in the Judiciary: Comparing the Independence and Legitimacy of Judicial Systems. West European Politics 34 (2): 317–345.10.1080/01402382.2011.546576]Search in Google Scholar
[Catterberg, G. – Moreno, A. (2006): The Individual Bases of Political Trust: Trends in New and Established Democracies. International Journal of Public Opinion 18 (1): 31–48.10.1093/ijpor/edh081]Search in Google Scholar
[Cook, Karen S. – Hardin, Russell – Levi, Margaret (2005): Cooperation without Trust? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.]Search in Google Scholar
[Drechsler, W. (2005): The Re-Emergence of “Weberian” Public Administration aft er the Fall of New Public Management: The Central and Eastern European Perspective. Halduskultuur 6: 94–108.]Search in Google Scholar
[Elster, Jon – Offe, Claus – Preuss, Ulrich K. (1998): Institutional Design in Post-communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511628351]Search in Google Scholar
[European Commission, Eurobarometer: available at http://ec.europa.eu/COMMFrontOffice/PublicOpinion/.]Search in Google Scholar
[European Social Survey: available at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/.]Search in Google Scholar
[Eurostat: available at http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat.]Search in Google Scholar
[European Values Study: available at http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/.]Search in Google Scholar
[Gambetta, Diego (2000): Can we trust trust?, in Gambetta, Diego ed., Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, 213–237. Oxford: University of Oxford, Department of Sociology]Search in Google Scholar
[Grönlund, Kimmo – Setälä, Maija (2012): In Honest Officials We Trust: Institutional Confidence in Europe. The American Review of Public Administration 42 (5): 523–54210.1177/0275074011412946]Search in Google Scholar
[Grzymala-Busse, Anna (2007): Rebuilding Leviathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511618819]Search in Google Scholar
[Hall, Peter (2003): Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Comparative Politics, in Mahoney, James – Rueschmeyer, Dietrich (eds). Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, 373–404, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511803963.012]Search in Google Scholar
[Hardin, Russell (2006): Trust. Cambridge: Polity Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Hellman, Joel S. (1998): Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions. World Politics 50 (2): 203–234.10.1017/S0043887100008091]Search in Google Scholar
[Kalniņš, Valts (2015): Process-tracing study report on Estonia. ANTICORRP, Hertie School of Governance.]Search in Google Scholar
[Kumlin, Staffan – Rothstein, Bo (2005): Making and Breaking Social Capital. The Impact of Welfare State Institutions. Comparative Political Studies 38 (4): 339–65.10.1177/0010414004273203]Search in Google Scholar
[Linde, J. (2012): Why feed the hand that bites you Perceptions of procedural fairness and system support in post-communist democracies. European Journal of Political Research 51 (3): 410–434.10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.02005.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Lühiste, K. (2006): Explaining trust in political institutions: Some illustrations from the Baltic states. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 39: 475–496.10.1016/j.postcomstud.2006.09.001]Search in Google Scholar
[Mattusch, K. (1997): Weltbilder als Weichensteller für die Richtung des Wandels. Zur Aktualität der “Protestantischen Ethik” am Beispiel des Baltikums, in Sterbling, A. – Zipprian, H. (eds.), Max Weber und Osteuropa. Beiträge zur Osteuropa forschung, Bd. 1. Hamburg: Reinhold Krämer Verlag.]Search in Google Scholar
[Meer van der, T. – Hakhverdian, A. (2017): Political Trust as the Evaluation of Process and Performance: A Cross-National Study of 42 European Countries. Political Studies 65 (1): 81–102.10.1177/0032321715607514]Search in Google Scholar
[Miller, A. H. (1993): In Search of Regime Legitimacy, in Miller, A. H. et al., eds., Public Opinion and Regime Change. Oxford: Westview Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Mishler, W. – Rose, R. (2001): What Are the Origins of Political Trust? Testing Institutional and Cultural Theories in Post-communist Societies. Comparative Political Studies 34 (1): 30–62.10.1177/0010414001034001002]Search in Google Scholar
[Nemec, Juraj (2008): Public Management Reforms in CEE: Lessons Learned, in Bouckaert, G. – Nemec, J. – Nakrošis, V. – Hajnal, G. – Tõnnisson, K. eds. Public management reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, 343–372, Bratislava, Slovakia, NISPAcee.]Search in Google Scholar
[New Baltic Barometer (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004) [Richard Rose], University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.]Search in Google Scholar
[Kitschelt, Herbert et al. (1999): Post-Communist Party Systems. Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9781139175173]Search in Google Scholar
[Norkus, Zenonas (2008): Kokia demokratija, koks kapitalizmas? Pokomunistinė transformacija Lietuvoje lyginamosios istorinės sociologijos požiūriu. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.]Search in Google Scholar
[Norkus, Zenonas (2011): Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian post-communist development in the comparative perspective, in Lauristin, Marju, ed., Estonian Human Development Report 2010/2011: Baltic Way(s) of Human Development: Twenty Years On, 22–30, Tallinn: Eesti Koostöögu.]Search in Google Scholar
[Norkus, Zenonas (2012): On Baltic Slovenia and Adriatic Lithuania: A qualitative comparative analysis of patterns in post-communist transformation. Vilnius, Budapest: Apostrofa/Central European University Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Ostrom, Elinor – Ahn, T.K. (2009): The meaning of social capital and its link to collective action. In Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard – Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase, eds., Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics. Cheltenham & Northhampton: Edward Elgar.10.4337/9781848447486.00008]Search in Google Scholar
[Office of the President of the Republic Lithuania (2015): https://www.lrp.lt/lt/spaudos-centras/pranesimai-spaudai/prezidente-skaitys-sesta-metini-pranesima/22880]Search in Google Scholar
[Putnam, Robert (1993): Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.10.1515/9781400820740]Search in Google Scholar
[Ramonaitė, Ainė, et al. (2014): Kaip renkasi Lietuvos rinkėjai? Idėjos, interesai ir įvaizdžiai politikoje. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla.]Search in Google Scholar
[Randma, L. (2001): A Small Civil Service in Transition: The Case of Estonia. Public Administration and Development, 21(1).10.1002/pad.153]Search in Google Scholar
[Rose, R. – Mishler, W. (2011): Political Trust and Distrust in Post-Authoritarian Contexts, in Zmerli, S. – Hooghe, M., eds., Political Trust. Why Context Matters, 117–140, ECPR Press.]Search in Google Scholar
[Rothstein, Bo (2011): The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.10.7208/chicago/9780226729589.001.0001]Search in Google Scholar
[Rothstein, Bo – Stolle, Dietlind (2008): The State and Social Capital: An Institutional Theory of Generalized Trust. Comparative Politics, 40 (4)(Jul., 2008): 441–459.10.5129/001041508X12911362383354]Search in Google Scholar
[Sarapuu, K. (2012): Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010. International Journal of Public Administration 35.10.1080/01900692.2012.715561]Search in Google Scholar
[Steen, Anton (1996): Confidence in Institutions in Post-Communist Societies: The Case of the Baltic States, Scandinavian Political Studies 19 (3): 205–224.10.1111/j.1467-9477.1996.tb00391.x]Search in Google Scholar
[Svallofors, Stefan (2013): Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending: A European comparison. European Political Science Review 5(3): 363–380.10.1017/S175577391200015X]Search in Google Scholar
[Titma, M. et al. (1998): Winners and losers in the postcommunist transition: New evidence from Estonia. Post-Soviet Affairs 14(2): 114–136.10.1080/1060586X.1998.10641449]Search in Google Scholar
[Tõnnisson, Kristiina – Randma-Liiv, Tiina (2008): Public Management Reforms: Estonia, in Bouckaert, G. – Nemec, J. – Nakrošis, V. – Hajnal, G. – Tõnnisson, K. eds. Public Management Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, 93–120, Bratislava, Slovakia: NISPAcee.]Search in Google Scholar
[United Nations (2015): Human Development Report 2015: available at http://hdr.undp.org/en/2015-report.]Search in Google Scholar
[Uslaner, Eric M. (2008): Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511510410]Search in Google Scholar
[Uslaner, Eric M. (2009): Corruption, in Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard – Svendsen, Gunnar Lind Haase, eds., Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics. Cheltenham & Northhampton: Edward Elgar.]Search in Google Scholar
