The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests, and Inter-Firm Cooperation in Italy and Germany

by Henry Farrell

Book Overview

Trust and cooperation are at the heart of the two most important approaches to comparative politics - rational choice and political culture. Yet we know little about trust's relationship to political institutions. This book sets out a rationalist theory of how institutions - and in particular informal institutions - can affect trust without reducing it to fully determinate expectations. It then shows how this theory can be applied to comparative political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052188649X
• ISBN13: 9780521886499
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"