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    Democracy and Trust

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    This essay proposes to look at the link between Democracy and Trust from a multidisciplinary approach. It takes into consideration most of the current studies on trust and tries to understand the mechanisms of a trusting democracy. It also tries to answer why democracy needs trust. Finally it develops the philosophical point of view concerning this combination between trust and democracy, in order to complete the analysis found in social sciences.

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    The problem of Trust has become an important issue within contemporary democracies and thus has been quite recently developed toward political and sociological theories. Furthermore, the concept of trust has gained considerable attention because it seems, according to those works that the general trust is decreasing, making our societies nastier than they used to be and even weakening democracy in parallel with the declines in civic participation.

    The purpose of this essay is to understand the links between Democracy and Trust using a multidisciplinary approach. This approach is essential if we want to understand the complex relations embodied by trust. We will thus focus firstly on the analysis made in social sciences – which bring us concrete observations and a broad ground – before trying to see the link between trust and democracy from a philosophical perspective. But before going deeper within this relation, trust itself has to be clarified.

    Trust by itself seems to be as complex as our societies according to the amounts of theories, and thus definitions on it. All human actions are oriented toward the future. But in front of the growing uncertainties, complexity and risks of our contemporary societies, the concern with trust has become an important phenomenon for sociology. The future is in many respects uncertain and because of the humanly created uncertainty; we make bets on the action of others and its impact upon my/our well-being.

    [...] Thus most of the principles constitutive of democratic order, assume institutionalization of distrust. Sztompka refers to this as the “paradox of democracy” and take in consideration twelve institutionalized distrusts: the principle of legitimacy of a government, the need of periodical elections, the fact that decisions are taken by the majority and collectively, the principle of division and balance of power, a constitutional order and judicial review, the process off litigation when citizens default on their contractual obligations, the possibility of a process of appeal, the existence of fundamental or civic rights, the enforcement of the law (by police, tax collector), the principle of universalism and fairness (against discriminations) and an open communication (...)

    Table of Contents:

    Introduction

    I) What is Trust?

    II) Trust in Democracy

    III) A philosophical approach

    Conclusion

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