Table of Contents

Part I. Approaches to the Study of Trust

Chapter 1: The Study of Trust
Eric M. Uslaner

Chapter 2: Measuring Trust
Paul C. Bauer and Markus Freitag

Chapter 3: Social and Political Trust
Kenneth Newton, Dietlind Stolle, and Sonja Zmerli

Chapter 4: Trust and National Identity
Patti Tamara Lenard and David Miller

Chapter 5: Trust and Democracy
Mark E. Warren

Chapter 6: Ingroup-Outgroup Trust: Barriers, Benefits, and Bridges
Roderick M. Kramer

Part II. Where Does Social Trust Come From?

Chapter 7: Biological and Psychological Influences on Interpersonal and Political Trust
Matthew Cawvey, Matthew Hayes, Damarys Canache, and Jeffery J. Mondak

Chapter 8: Trust and Participation in Associations
Pamela Paxton and Robert Ressler

Part III. How Different Groups Develop Social Trust

Chapter 9: Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust
Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

Chapter 10: Cultural Persistence or Experiential Adaptation? A Review of Studies Using Immigrants to Examine the Roots of Trust
Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov

Chapter 11: Trust and Minority Groups
Rima Wilkes and Cary Wu

Part IV. Social Trust and Rational Choice

Chapter 12: Trust and Rational Choice
Karen S. Cook and Jessica J. Santana

Chapter 13: Trust Experiments, Trust Games, and Surveys
Rick K. Wilson

Chapter 14: Trust Games: Game-Theoretic Approaches to Embedded Trust
Vincent Buskens, Vincenz Frey, and Werner Raub

Part V. Comparative Studies of Trust

Chapter 15: Trust in Newly Democratic Regimes
Natalia Letki

Chapter 16: Social and Political Trust in Developing Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Robert Mattes and Alejandro Moreno

Part VI. Outcomes of Social Trust

Chapter 17: Trust and the Welfare State
Staffan Kumlin, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, and Atle Haugsgjerd

Chapter 18: New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being
John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, and Shun Wang

Chapter 19: Trust and Population Health
Ichiro Kawachi

Part VII. Political Consequences of Social Trust

Chapter 20: Trust and Corruption
Jong-sung You

Chapter 21: Trust and Tax Morale
Ho Fai Chan, Mohammad Wangsit Supriyadi, and Benno Torgler

Chapter 22: Social Trust and Economic Growth
Christian Bjørnskov

Part VIII. Political Trust: Where Does It Come From, Why It Matters

Chapter 23: Foundations of Political Trust
Ola Listhaug and Tor Georg Jacobsen

Chapter 24: Political Trust and Polarization
Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph

Chapter 25: Economic Performance and Political Trust
Tom W.G. van der Meer

Chapter 26: Trust and Elections
Marc Hooghe

Chapter 27: Trust in Justice
Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, and Mike Hough

Part IX. Trust in International Relations

Chapter 28: Trust in International Actors
Paul R. Brewer, Kimberly Gross, and Timothy Vercellotti

Chapter 29: Trust in International Politics
Brian Christopher Rathbun

About the Author

Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China, and an Honorary Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark. He has also been a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. He is the author of nine books, including The Moral Foundations of Trust; Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life; Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity,
Isolation, and Social Cohesion; and The Historical Roots of Corruption: Mass Education, Economic Inequality, and State Capacity, as well as more than 150 articles.

Reviews

"Collectively, the essays represent an interdisciplinary approach to investigating subjective measures of trust applied to society and to politics. Each essay provides a thorough review of the topic, an overview of prior research, an examination of key themes or issues, and a discussion of their implications in practice. Included in some essays are helpful figures and tables that summarize information presented in the text. All contain a list of references."
--R. V. Labaree, University of Southern California, CHOICE
"This is a comprehensive collection, bringing together a number of scholars to unpack and examine the meaning and value of social and political trust. The format of each chapter, reviewing existing research and suggesting new directions, means that it admirably achieves its goal of providing a go-to resource for anyone looking to understand the deeper roots of trust." -- Thomas O'Brien, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology