This Thing Called Trust Civic Society and Govenrment in Western Europe

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ISBN: 9780230542679 | 0230542670
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/15/2008

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This Thing Called Trust provides a detailed theoretical analysis of the research about trust, civic society and society capital. The author takes a comparative approach, considering the variations in both interpersonal (social) trust and trust in governmental institutions in European countries and in the U.S. He uniquely provides a complementary empirical analysis which connects discussions of the individual psychology of trust with understandings of its cultural and institutional roots at more aggregate (state or country) level.

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. x
Preface	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Scope of the book	p. 2
Background	p. 2
The concern with trust in government	p. 3
Why worry?	p. 5
The case of Britain	p. 9
A guide for the reader	p. 10
The Nature of Trust
The Meaning of Trust	p. 15
Introduction	p. 15
What trust is	p. 16
Why we need trust	p. 17
Formalising trust	p. 21
How trust works: information, media and the presumption of distrust	p. 24
Conclusion	p. 30
The Role and Maintenance of Trust	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
Effective communication and iterated interactions	p. 34
Trust in people and government: misnomers?	p. 45
What trust does	p. 47
The causal order of trust and behaviour	p. 54
Conclusion	p. 56
Explaining Trust
Frameworks of Trust	p. 61
Introduction	p. 61
Trust - general approaches	p. 62
Explaining social trust - specific approaches	p. 65
Trust in government - specific approaches	p. 68
Conclusion	p. 74
Comparative Overview: Trust and Civic Cultures	p. 76
Introduction	p. 76
The parameters of trust	p. 77
Behavioural correlates of trust	p. 78
Data and country selection	p. 81
Models of social trust	p. 83
Results - social trust	p. 85
Models of political trust	p. 90
Results - political trust	p. 91
Models of political behaviour	p. 94
Results - trust and behavioural outcomes	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 99
Exploring Trust: A Critique	p. 104
Introduction	p. 104
Conflating explanations and definitions	p. 105
Beliefs and attitudes	p. 106
Building a conceptual model	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 117
Trust in Britain
Exploring Trust: A Quantitative Review and Trends	p. 121
Introduction	p. 121
Building on the qualitative model - measuring political trust	p. 122
The structure of political trust	p. 125
Building on the qualitative model - measuring social trust	p. 126
The structure of social trust	p. 128
Trends in beliefs of government, Britain, 1987-2005	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 137
Explaining Trust in Britain	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
Trust and political parties	p. 140
The changing rationality of parties	p. 142
Expanding the models	p. 144
Results - trust in government	p. 146
Models of social trust	p. 152
Results	p. 153
Conclusion	p. 156
Trust and Political Behaviour	p. 158
Introduction	p. 158
Types of political participation	p. 159
Trends in political participation	p. 161
Explaining differences in participation	p. 163
Specifying the models	p. 165
Results	p. 166
Citizen heterogeneity	p. 177
Results - trust and knowledge interactions	p. 181
Different types of social trusters	p. 183
Results - typologies of social trusters	p. 184
Conclusion	p. 186
The Challenge to Political Institutions	p. 187
Creating trust	p. 187
Mobilising trust, interest and knowledge	p. 192
Notes	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 206
Name Index	p. 223
Subject Index	p. 227
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This Thing Called Trust Civic Society and Govenrment in Western Europe

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