The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust

Books in the Series:

Trust in Governance

Trust in Society

Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment

Trust and Trustworthiness

Trust in the Law: Encouraging Public Cooperation Through the Police and Courts

Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research

Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches

Distrust

Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Customers’ Trustworthiness

Cooperation Without Trust?

Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico

Teaching, Tasks, and Trust: Functions of the Public Executive

About the Series:

The Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust examines the conceptual structure and the empirical basis of claims concerning the role of trust and trustworthiness in establishing and maintaining cooperative behavior in a wide variety of social, economic, and political contexts. The focus is on concepts, methods, and findings that will enrich social science and inform public policy.

The books in the series raise questions about how trust can be distinguished from other means of promoting cooperation and explore those analytic and empirical issues that advance our comprehension of the roles and limits of trust in social, political, and economic life. Because trust is at the core of understandings of social order from varied disciplinary perspectives, the series offers the best work of scholars from diverse backgrounds and, through the edited volumes, encourages engagement across disciplines and orientations. The goal of the series is to improve the current state of trust research by providing a clear theoretical account of the causal role of trust within the given institutional, organizational, and interpersonal situations, developing sound measures of trust to test theoretical claims within relevant settings, and establishing some common ground among concerned scholars and policymakers.