Introduction
Why read this book?
Trust matters. Over the last 20 years there has been a cumulative increase in trust as a topic of interest not only to scholars, but also for the public. Turning on a TV news programme or opening a newspaper reveals the salience of trust, be it the news concerning its violation or the aftermath. Trust is an area that is of interest far beyond academia, extending to a broad array of groups from corporations and practitioners, to governments and policy makers, and to media and public. Periods of turbulence and scandal seem to be endemic since the start of the twenty-first century, and have been accompanied by profound questions about trust and the growing ...
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