Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition

J. Kornai, B. Rothstein, S. Rose-Ackerman

Springer, Jun 25, 2004 - Political Science - 252 pages

Beneficial social and economic exchange relies on a certain level of trust. But trust is a delicate matter, not least in the former socialist countries where illegitimate behaviour by governments made distrust a habit. The chapters in this volume analyze the causes and the effects of the lack of social trust in post-socialist countries. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition. A second volume entitled, Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition , is being published simultaneously.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Part I Social Capital and Democratic Transition: 11
• Part II Trust and the Business Environment: 53
• Part III Trust Cooperation and Success: 191
• Author Index: 241
• Subject Index: 246

About the author

GABRIEL BADESCU Associate Professor of Political Science at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ILDIKÓ BARNA Research Assistant at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary KAREN S. COOK Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and the Cognizant Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University, California, USA GYÖRGY CSEPELIÖ Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös University, Hungary ALEXANDRA GERBASI Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, California, USA ALENA V. LEDENEVA Reader in Russian Politics and Society, University College, London, UK ANTAL ÖRKÉNY Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary KATHARINA PISTOR Associate Professor of law at Columbia Law School, New York, USA VADIM RADAEV Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia ERIC R. W. RICE Sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA MARTIN RAISER Director for Country Strategy and Analysis at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UK ALAN ROUSSO Senior Political Counsellor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UK FRANKLIN STEIN Political Analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UK MÁRIA SZÉKELYI Professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary ERIC M. USLANER Professor of Government at Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA FEDERICO VARESE University Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Oxford, UK VADIM VOLKOV Chair of the Sociology Department of the High School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch, Russia CHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific States at University of California, USA CHENGGANG XU Lecturer (tenured in 1998) in the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Bibliographic information

• Title: Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition; Political Evolution and Institutional Change
• Editors: J. Kornai, B. Rothstein, S. Rose-Ackerman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2004
• ISBN: 1403980667, 9781403980663
• Length: 252 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade; Business & Economics / International / General; Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / International Relations / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Political Science / World / European; Political Science / World / Russian & Soviet