Researchers are currently refining the concept and theory of trust to focus on identifying the bases of trust within specific domains. This paper examines the development of trust within the domain of agricultural water policy, where trust is a critical resource for solving collective action problems. The analysis uses data from a mail survey of farmers in agricultural water policy to integrate...

Trust is a key word in current public debates. Bankers have become one of the most distrusted professional groups in the West. Politicians in most democra‐ cies have experienced for decades the decline of political trust. Japanese no longer trust the Tokyo Electric Power Company Tepco and their government after the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima. Germans have lost confidence in the European c...

A popular explanation for the recent success of right-wing populist candidates, parties and movements is that this “revenge places don't matter”. Under meso-level account, as economic development focuses on increasingly prosperous cities, voters in less dynamic rural areas feel neglected by political establishment, back radical change. However, premise typically tested through analysis voting b...

BACKGROUND Building or maintaining institutional trust is of central importance in democratic societies since negative experiences (potentially leading to mistrust) with government or other institutions may have a much more profound effect than positive experiences (potentially maintaining trust). Healthy democracy relies on more than simply trusting the national government of the time, and is ...