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Measuring Trust In Post-Communist States: Making The Case For Particularized Trust., Nicole M. Ford
Measuring Trust In Post-Communist States: Making The Case For Particularized Trust., Nicole M. Ford
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
While the literature on democracy and its relationship to trust provides little consensus regarding the role of trust, researchers have emphasized the importance of generalized trust over particularized in relation to democracy. This research marks a departure from this consensus, and exposes the neglected role of personal relationships in fostering successful democracy.
One of the key measurements of democracy in a country is social trust. There are three forms of trust: generalized, particularized and institutional. Previously, the measurement of social trust focused on the importance of generalized trust, that is, trust in those we do not know (Putnam, 1993; Fukuyama, …