Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition

by Susan Rose-Ackerman (Editor)

Preface; J.Kornai & S.Rose-Ackerman Creating Social Trust; B.Rothstein PART SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION Social Capital and the Quality of The Casual Mechanism; B.Rothstein Honesty, Trust, and Legal Norms in the Transition to Democracy; G.Badescu & E.M.Uslaner PART TRUST AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Firms Trust? Evidence From a Survey of 26 Transition Economies; M.Raiser, A.Rousso & F.Steves Non-Transparency of the Post-Communist The Relationship Between the Formal and the Informal in the Case of Banking; A.V.Ledeneva How Trust is Established in Economic Relationships When Institutions and Individuals are Not The Case of Russia; V.Radaev Establishing Confidence in Business Courts, Networks, and Relationships as Pillars of Support; C.Woodruff The Selective Use of State Capacity in Russia's Property Disputes and Enterprise Takeovers After 2000; V.Volkov Mafia Transplantation; F.Varese Beyond Law Financial Market Regulation in China and K.Pistor & C.Xu PART THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CREATING AND DESTROYING SOCIAL TRUST Trust and Networks of Informal Co-operation; K.S.Cook, E.R.W.Rice & A.Gerbasi Blindness to Social Psychological Pbjectives on the Way to market Economy in Eastern and Central Europe; A.Örkény, G.Csepeli, M.Székelyi & I.Barna

Genres: Economics

276 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 2004