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.

Preface; J.Kornai & S.Rose-Ackerman Introduction: Creating Social Trust; B.Rothstein PART I: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION Social Capital and the Quality of Government: The Casual Mechanism; B.Rothstein Honesty, Trust, and Legal Norms in the Transition to Democracy; G.Badescu & E.M.Uslaner PART II: 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 Economies: 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 Trustworthy: The Case of Russia; V.Radaev Establishing Confidence in Business Partners: Courts, Networks, and Relationships as Pillars of Support; C.Woodruff The Selective Use of State Capacity in Russia's Economy: Property Disputes and Enterprise Takeovers After 2000; V.Volkov Mafia Transplantation; F.Varese Beyond Law Enforcement: Financial Market Regulation in China and Russia: K.Pistor & C.Xu PART III: 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 Success: Social Psychological Pbjectives on the Way to market Economy in Eastern and Central Europe; A.Örkény, G.Csepeli, M.Székelyi & I.Barna

GABRIEL BADESCU Associate Professor of Political Science at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania ILDIKÓ BARNA Research Assistant at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary KAREN S. COOK Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and the Cognizant Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University, California, USA GYÖRGY CSEPELIÖ Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös 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 ÖRKÉNY Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd 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 Development (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 MÁRIA SZÉKELYI Professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary ERIC M. USLANER Professor of Government at Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA FEDERICO VARESE University Lecturer inCriminology 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 at University of California, USA CHENGGANG XU Lecturer (tenured in 1998) in the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK