Police trust-building strategies. A socio-institutional, comparative approach

explaining trust: society- centered approach versus institutional- centered model

social capital has received considerable attention in all branches of social sciences, and has recently been the focus in the field to explain about procreator elements. trust is one of the social capital elements and plays an important role in specifying consequences incidental to social capital. nearly two decades ago, robert putnam proposed an explanation of trust relying on associational li...

Understanding Institutional-based Trust Building Processes in Inter-organizational Relationships

This paper deals with the role of institutions in the development of trust in relationships between organizations. We review various strands of literature on organizational trust and examine the assumptions made about how trust building processes are influenced by institutional arrangements. Following this conceptual analysis, we discuss four mechanisms that are pivotal in the development of in...

Building institutional trust through e-government trustworthiness cues

Purpose – Most theory and empirical research on the impact of e-government on citizens’ trust in government remains at the macro-level and misses out on the complexities of the interaction between e-services and citizens’ trust in government. The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of this complexity. Design/methodology/approach – The research strategy is a comparative ca...

Endogenous Institutional Selection, Building Trust, and Economic Growth

Private-order market institutions founded on trust-based relational contracts suffer adverse selection and moral hazard problems, while public-order market institutions have a limited capacity to enforce contracts. We model agent selection between contract enforcement institutions and demonstrate that the state’s contract enforcement capacity is complementary to private-order contract enforceme...

Building Strategies for Future — A Professional's Approach