Der vorliegende Untersuch erarbeitet einen diskursanalytischen Zugang zum Thema Vertrauen. In einem Grundlagenteil entwickeln wir mit Rückgriff auf Sztompkas Vertrauens- und Links Interdiskurstheorie einen Vertrauensbegriff, der von der diskursiven Konstruktion der gesellschaftlichen...

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

The present dissertation focuses on trust and comprises three empirical essays on the concept itself and its foundations. All three essays investigate trust as an expectation and rely on selfreport measures of trust. Whereas the first two chapters investigate social trust, the third chapter...