As indicated by Gonsalves & McGannon (2018) in his study, the lack of trust, the inability to unite, leads to the fact that American citizens are constantly forced to solve their own household, financial and other problems alone, without uniting with other citizens. As a result, the majority of citizens can (or cannot) solve their problems in government by legal, completely legal means: it is difficult for them to resist the actions of government representatives alone. In order to exercise their constitutional rights and freedoms, citizens are forced to resort to corruption actions: for the right to obtain a position in the public service, for registering apartments and land plots in property, for receiving medical assistance in public medical institutions, for admission to budget places in public higher educational institutions etc. Since the solution of various social problems is carried out only with the help of corruption actions, most often with the help of bribes, therefore, despite the fact that the majority of American citizens negatively assess corruption actions, they are ready to use them in their interactions with state and municipal employees. The low quality of social capital leads to constantly deteriorating conditions for investing in the American economy. Low investor confidence in private business and government makes investment difficult. The state and municipal authorities, including in the investment processes, conduct it for corruption purposes, i.e. in the interests of their own or private corporations, and not to solve the country’s strategic problems, the development of society, the economy and the state.
Wang, Chou & Li (2018) stated that public non-profit organizations should be involved in solving social problems, but if these decisions are developed exclusively by the authorities with significant restrictions on public control of their activities, the ego will lead to the opposite result – increased corruption in government and an increase in the corruption component of social capital. The level of development of social capital is determined by the degree of development of informal social institutions and voluntary organizations (associations, unions), the development of social actors capable of creatively interpreting those signals and