Table of Contents

1. Introduction Mark E. Warren; 2. Do we want trust in government? Russell Hardin; 3. How can we trust our fellow citizens? Claus Offe; 4. Trust, well-being and democracy Ronald Inglehart; 5. Democracy and social capital Eric M. Uslaner; 6. Liberty against the democratic state: on the historical and contemporary sources of American distrust Orlando Patterson; 7. Trust, voluntary association and workable democracy: the contemporary American discourse of civil society Jean Cohen; 8. Trust and its surrogates: psychological foundations of political process Rom Harré; 9. Geographies of trust James C. Scott; 10. Altruistic trust Jane Mansbridge; 11. Democratic theory and trust Mark E. Warren; 12. Conclusion Mark E. Warren.