Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines including sociology economics psychology philosophy public policy and political theory. The book approaches trust from a multi-disciplinary scope of inquiry. It explains why most existing definitions and theories of trust are inadequate. The book examines how trust evolved from a quality of personal relationships into a critical factor in political institutions and representation and to an abstract and impersonal factor that applies now to complex systems including monetary systems. It makes a distinctive contribution by recasting trust conceptually in dialectical and pragmatic terms and reapplying the concept to our understanding of critical issues in politics and political economy. |The Problem of Political Trust A Conceptual Reformulation | Economics
