The Routledge Companion to Trust

Part VApplications

One of the key questions we wanted to explore in this book is whether trust is different in distinct contexts. Here we examine the issue of trust in eight different applied settings to consider more explicitly the salience of trust and the different aspects that matter. We have tried to select contexts that have been hit by dramatic changes or scandals that have changed and to some degree eroded public trust. We indicate in our short review of each chapter their synergies with other chapters, but it is evident that all of the chapters in the preceding part on trust and its repair would be of interest to readers.

We start the part with a context in which trust is a germane issue both at interpersonal but also institutional levels ...