Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays

✍ Scribed by Raquel Barradas de Freitas; Sergio Lo Iacono (editors)

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume collects original essays on trust. It examines the role of trust in public life and places analytic questions about the attitude of trust at the centre of a cross-disciplinary inquiry into its value. Bringing together contributors from across the social, historical and political sciences, this edited collection seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of fundamental concepts in political and legal theory by furnishing and sharpening our concepts of trust and trustworthiness.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
1. Introduction: The Virtue of Trust
I. Chapter Summary
II. Invitation to Readers
References
Part I: Formalising Trust
2. Clearing the Jungle: Conceptualising Trust and Trustworthiness
I. Introduction
II. Deriving a Definition of Trust and Trustworthiness
III. Trusting Behaviour, Cooperation, Confidence, Mistrust, and Risk
IV. Conclusion
References
3. Who are We Trusting? A Category-Based Formalisation of Trust
I. Introduction
II. The Classic Formalisation and the Generalisation Problem
III. A Category-based Formalisation of Trust
IV. Conclusions
References
4. The Double-Edged Sword of Cooperation: The Vulnerability of Trusting and Trustworthy Behaviour
I. Trust and Cooperation
II. Trust and Vulnerability
III. Reconsidering the Paradigms in Cooperation
IV. Reputation, Vulnerability, and Mistrusted Communities
V. Implications and Conclusion
References
Part II: The Value of Trust
5. How Should We Relate to EachOther Politically? Love and Trust as Relational Ethicsin the Political Realm
I. Introduction
II. Methodology, Context and Concepts
III. Trust and Love
IV. Comparing Love and Trust as Relational Ethics in the Political Realm
V. Objections and Implications
VI. Conclusion
References
6. Democratic Politics and the Circles of Trust
I. Introduction
II. An Account of Trust
III. Political Representation: Delegates vs Trustees
IV. The Problems with the Delegate Solution
V. Trusting Behaviour and Language of Trust
VI. Conclusion
References
7. Trust in the Relationship between Indigenous People and the Canadian State
I. Introduction
II. The Invitation
III. The Entrusting
IV. The Betrayal
V. The Denial
VI. Conclusion
References
8. Public Trust(s)
I. Introduction
II. How Have We Thought about Trust in Relation to Property?
III. Can the Public Trust?
IV. How Much Can Trust Explain about Common Property?
V. Conclusion
References
9. On Voluntary Associations and New Avenues for Research on Social Trust
I. Introduction
II. Voluntary Associational Involvement and Social Trust: The Evidence
III. Voluntary Associations in Britain: Expansion and Diversification
IV. Funding Cuts and their Impact upon Communities in Britain
V. New Avenues for Research and Discussion
References
Part III: Trust, Evidence, Authority and the Law
10. Trust, Trustworthiness and Credibility in Relation to Testimonial Evidence at Common Law
References
11. Fabricating Authenticity: Trust and Trustworthiness in the
History of Culture, from Late
Antiquity to the Middle Ages
I. Authenticity, Trustworthiness, Trust
II. Canonical and Apocryphal Authority
III. Inauthentic Documents in the Early Middle Ages
IV. Authenticating Relics in the High Middle Ages
References
12. The Legal Significance of Theories of Public Trust in Science: An Illustration from Italy
I. Introduction
II. The 2009 Earthquake and the Meeting of the L'Aquila Seven
III. The Trial of the L'Aquila Seven, or: Can Scientific Communication Kill?
IV. Three Theories of Public Trust in Science
V. The Assessment and Use of the Theories by the Judges
VI. Conclusion: The Legal and Political Relevance of Theories of Public Trust in Science
References
13. Why Should Citizens Trust
EU Regulatory Expertise? Legal Warrants, Science and Politics
in EU Food Governance
I. Trust Through Expertise and Trust In Expertisein EU Food Governance. Introduction and Outline
II. ‘Knowing for the Many’: RegulatoryExpertise, Delegation, and Trust
III. The Features of ‘Trusted Science’ in EU Food Governance: A Trust-Based Analysis of the 2002 GFL
IV. Evolving Understandings of ‘Trusted Science’ in EFSA’s Practices and Reform
V. Concluding Remarks
References
14. On the EU Legal Principle of Mutual Trust
I. Introduction
II. Starting with Trust
III. The Principle of Mutual Trust in EU Law
IV. Liberato – Trusting Despite EU Law Infringements
V. Mutual Trust in the EU Legal Architecture – In the Name of Trust?
VI. Concluding Remarks – Trust as a Rationale for EU Integration?
References
Index