British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 123

Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe

edited by Ivana Marková

Reprinted 2006

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 232 pages
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726313-6
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These ten essays are concerned with theoretical and empirical analyses of trust and distrust in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989. Differences between meanings of trust in countries with democratic traditions and in post-totalitarian countries raise questions about the ways in which history, culture and social psychology shape the nature and development of political phenomena. The authors show that while political and economic changes can have rapid effects, cultural and psychological changes may linger behind and influence the quality of political trust and representations of democracy.

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