WHY does trust in new democracies deserve a separate chapter in this volume? The answer
to this question relates not to trust and its dimensions per se but to a specific relationship …

The literature on political trust has long emphasized its relevance for democracy and
democratic consolidation. All types of trust indeed have been considered as indispensable …

Levels of both political and social trust tend to play a crucial role in democracies. Yet we
have little understanding of the ways in which trust operates in nondemocratic societies. This …

Representative democracies all share a common concern: in order to maintain stability,
viability and legitimacy, one pivotal source–political trust–may not run dry. There is …

MATTHEW R. CLEARY AND SUSAN C. STOKES political, horizontal, institutional, or
however intra-elite, the term generalized, trust is network-specific, qualified, recent …

Trust and democracy have an essential but paradoxical relationship to one another. By
'trust'I mean a person's judgement that another person has both the motivation and …

This book, by Sonja Zmerli and Marc Hooghe, presents cutting-edge empirical research on
political trust as a relational concept. From a European comparative perspective it addresses …

Although trust is clearly central to human relations of all kinds, it is less clear whether there is
a role for trust in democratic politics. In this article, I argue that trust is central to democratic …

This chapter conceptualizes trust from the standpoint of democratic theory. 1 Ideally, what
kinds of trust does a democracy need? To what extent does a democracy require distrust …

The measure of trust that people vest in their fellow citizens or institutions depends on three
factors: thereflected trustworthiness' of the target as estimated by themselves in a more or …