Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition

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.

GABRIEL BADESCU Associate Professor of Political Science at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaILDIKO BARNA Research Assistant at Eotvos Lorand University, HungaryKAREN S. COOK Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and the Cognizant Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University, California, USAGYORGY CSEPELIO Professor of Sociology at the Eotvos University, HungaryALEXANDRA GERBASI Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, California, USAALENA V. LEDENEVA Reader in Russian Politics and Society, University College, London, UKANTAL ORKENY Professor of Sociology at the Eotvos Lorand University, HungaryKATHARINA PISTOR Associate Professor of law at Columbia Law School, New York, USAVADIM RADAEV Professor of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaERIC R. W. RICE Sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, USAMARTIN 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, UKFRANKLIN STEIN Political Analyst at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UKMARIA SZEKELYI Professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Eotvos Lorand University, HungaryERIC M. USLANER Professor of Government at Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USAFEDERICO VARESE University Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Oxford, UKVADIM VOLKOV Chair of the Sociology Department of the High School of Economics, St. Petersburg Branch, RussiaCHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific States at University ofCalifornia, USACHENGGANG XU Lecturer (tenured in 1998) in the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK