| Description |
xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Trust and the Good Life -- 2. Strategic Trust and Moralistic Trust -- 3. Counting (on) Trust -- 4. The Roots of Trust -- 5. Trust and Experience -- 6. Stability and Change in Trust -- 7. Trust and Consequences -- 8. Trust and the Democratic Temperament -- Epilogue: Trust and the Civic Community |
| Summary |
"The Moral Foundations of Trust seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers and why doing so matters. Trust is a moral value that does not depend on personal experience or on interactions with people in civic groups or informal socializing. Instead, we learn to trust from our parents, and trust is stable over long periods of time. Trust depends on an optimistic worldview: the world is a good place and we can make it better. Trusting people are more likely to give through charity and volunteering and are more supportive of rights for groups that have faced discrimination. Trusting societies are more likely to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor and to have more effective governments |
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Trust has been on the wane in the United States for more than thirty years, the roots of which are traceable to declining optimism and increasing economic inequality, trends Uslaner documents with aggregate time series in the United States and cross-sectional data across market economies."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Trust -- Social aspects.
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Trust -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Social participation.
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Trust -- United States.
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Social participation -- United States.
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Social values -- United States.
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| LC no. |
2001052721 |
| ISBN |
0521011035 pb |
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9780521812139 |
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0521812135 |
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9780521011037 paperback |
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