Creating social trust in post-socialist transition / edited by János Kornai, Bo Rothstein, and Susan Rose-Ackerman.

A project of the Collegium Budapest.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Social trust and honesty in government : a causal mechanisms approach / Bo Rothstein -- Honesty, trust, and legal norms in the transition to democracy : why Bo Rothstein is better able to explain Sweden than Romania / Eric M. Uslaner and Gabriel Badescu -- Measuring trust in transition : preliminary findings from 26 transition economies / Martin Raiser, Alan Rousso, and Franklin Steves -- Underground financing in Russia / Alena V. Ledeneva -- How trust is established in economic relationships when institutions and individuals are not trustworthy : the case of Russia / Vadim Radaev --Establishing confidence in business partners : courts, networks, and relationships as pillars of support / Christopher Woodruff -- The selective use of state capacity in Russia's economy : property disputes and enterprise takeovers, 1998-2002 / Vadim Volkov -- Mafia transplantation / Federico Varese -- Beyond law enforcement : governing financial markets in China and Russia / Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu -- The emergence of trust networks under uncertainty : the case of transitional economies--insights from social psychological research / Karen S. Cook, Eric R.W. Rice, and Alexandra Gerbasi -- Blindness to success : social psychological objectives along the way to market economy in Eastern Europe / György Csepeli ... [and others].