“ Confiance ” en régime démocratique et en régime totalitaire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2006
Abstract
This article discusses the thesis according to which a necessary link exists between a culture of trust and the emergence of a democratic regime. After analyzing the ordinary uses of the word trust, it differentiates three conceptions of “civic trust”: culturalist, rational-instrumental and moral. Then, by comparing the features of both a democratic and a totalitarian regime, it refutes the idea of a constitutive relation between trust and democracy. It then concludes that one cannot claim that a population lacks the ability to establish a democracy because it possesses certain cultural traits.
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- Research Article
- Information
- European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 2005 , pp. 445 - 466
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- 2005 Archives Européenes de Sociology
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