Trust and Rule

This 2005 book provides an essential background to the explanation of democratization and de-democratization.

Charles Tilly (Author)

9780521855259, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 July 2005

214 pages, 2 b/w illus. 11 tables
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg

'Charles Tilly is a prolific writer and an authority in modern historical sociology … Tilly's book does a good job of situating the dilemmas of trust and rule in a rich historical context.' Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

Rightly fearing that unscrupulous rulers would break them up, seize their resources, or submit them to damaging forms of intervention, strong networks of trust such as kinship groups, clandestine religious sects, and trade diasporas have historically insulated themselves from political control by a variety of strategies. Drawing on a vast range of comparisons over time and space, Trust and Rule, first published in 2005, asks and answers how and with what consequences members of trust networks have evaded, compromised with, or even sought connections with political regimes. Since different forms of integration between trust networks produce authoritarian, theocratic, and democratic regimes, the book provides an essential background to the explanation of democratization and de-democratization.

1. Relations of trust and distrust
2. How and why trust networks work
3. Transformations of trust networks
4. Trust networks versus predators
5. From segregation to integration
6. Trust and democratization
7. Future trust networks.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], Political science & theory [JPA], Social & political philosophy [HPS]