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Recently trust has appeared as a key concept for understanding collective action. Trust makes it possible for people to enter into relationships of dependency and cooperation. The particular focus of this book is trust in public institutions in South Africa: to what extent do people trust or distrust public institutions, what makes public institutions trustworthy, and how do trustworthy institutions affect generalized social trust among strangers? Through its various contributions, the book provides an understanding of the dynamics of trust-building in South Africa in relation to national and local institutions, and within various sectors such as agriculture, health and education. The studies are also pertinent to developing countries in general. The volume analyzes specific instantiations of trust/distrust relationships and trust - inducing/reducing conditions in a South African context. This empirical thrust differentiates the book from other literatures and asserts it as a specific South African investigation of different areas and cases in which trust (or the lack thereof) contribute to development.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Nelleke Bak and Steinar Askvik. The Legislature: Trust and Parliament at the beginning of the new century, Tor Halvorsen; Legislative oversight and trust relations, Michelle Esau; Trust relations in the National Council of Provinces, Chisepo J. J. Mphaisha. Local Government: Democracy and trust in local government, Chris Tapscott; Entitlement, affordability or a matter of trust? reflections on the non-payment of service charges in local authorities, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad. Land, Housing and Water: Land politics and trust relations in Government: findings from western South Africa, Thorvald Gran; Housing activist networks from Cape Town to Calcutta: a case study of the politics of trust and distrust, Steven Robins; Pre-packed trust and the water sector, Jaqui Goldin. Health: Information technology in the health sector: improving service delivery and public trust, Diana Gibson; The incapacitating impact of distrust: observations from the health sector, Jan Froestad. Education: Would you buy an education from this eeacher? notions of trust and distrust in education, Nelleke Bak; Running a school on its own is too much: why principals trust and distrust school governing bodies, Steinar Askvik. South Africa in Regional Context: Trust in institutions in sub-saharan Africa's emerging democracies, Annie Barbara Chikwanha; Conclusion, Steinar Askvik and Nelleke Bak; References; Index.

About the Author :
Steinar Askvik is from the University of Bergen, Norway. Nelleke Bak is from the University of the Western Cape in the Republic of South Africa and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780754643531
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Height: 234 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0754643530
  • Publisher Date: 28 Dec 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Width: 156 mm


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