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, Romania ILDIK BARNA Research Assistant at E/tv/s Lorand University, Hungary KAREN S. COOK Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and the Cognizant Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University, California, USA GYRGY CSEPELI Professor of Sociology at the E/tv/s 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 RKNY Professor of Sociology at the E/tv/s Lorand 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 Deve lopment (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 MRIA SZKELYI Professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of E/tv/s Lorand 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

ISBN 1403964491   Pages 272 ISBN13 9781403964496 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave USA   Weight (grammes) 532 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Gordonsville Format Hardback   Series editor Holscher, Jens, Holscher, Jens, Holscher, Jens Publication date 20 Jul 2004   Series title Political Evolution & Institutional Change S. Non-book description xix, 252 p. :   Height (mm) 242 Library of Congress HM708 \.C7, HM708 \.C7   Width (mm) 160 DEWEY 303.372   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Preface by Janos Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman
		Introduction by Bo Rothstein		1
Pt. I		Social capital and democratic transition		11
1		Social trust and honesty in government : a causal mechanisms approach by Bo Rothstein		13
2		Honesty, trust, and legal norms in the transition to democracy : why Bo Rothstein is better able to explain Sweden than Romania by Eric M. Uslaner and Gabriel Badescu		31
Pt. II		Trust and the business environment		53
3		Measuring trust in transition : preliminary findings from 26 transition economies by Martin Raiser and Alan Rousso and Franklin Steves		55
4		Underground financing in Russia by Alena V. Ledeneva		71
5		How trust is established in economic relationships when institutions and individuals are not trustworthy : the case of Russia by Vadim Radaev		91
6		Establishing confidence in business partners : courts, networks, and relationships as pillars of support by Christopher Woodruff		111
7		The selective use of state capacity in Russia's economy : property disputes and enterprise takeovers, 1998-2002 by Vadim Volkov		126
8		Mafia transplantation by Federico Verese		148
9		Beyond law enforcement : governing financial markets in China and Russia by Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu		167
Pt. III		Trust, cooperation, and success		191
10		The emergence of trust networks under uncertainty : the case of transitional economies - insights from social psychological research by Karen S. Cook and Eric R. W. Rice and Alexandra Gerbasi		193
11		Blindness to success : social psychological objectives along the way to a market economy in Eastern Europe by Gyorgy Csepeli and Antal Orkeny and Maria Szekelyi and Ildiko Barna		213

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