Der vorliegende Untersuch erarbeitet einen diskursanalytischen Zugang zum Thema Vertrauen. In einem Grundlagenteil entwickeln wir mit Rückgriff auf Sztompkas Vertrauens- und Links Interdiskurstheorie einen Vertrauensbegriff, der von der diskursiven Konstruktion der gesellschaftlichen...

The present dissertation focuses on trust and comprises three empirical essays on the concept itself and its foundations. All three essays investigate trust as an expectation and rely on selfreport measures of trust. Whereas the first two chapters investigate social trust, the third chapter...

Since trust correlates with economic development and in turn economic development associates with political regime, we conjecture that there may be a relationship between trust and political regime. We investigate if trust aggregated on the country level correlates with the political regime. We...

Since trust correlates with economic development and in turn economic development associates with political regime, we conjecture that there may be a relationship between trust and political regime. We investigate if trust aggregated on the country level correlates with the political regime. We...

The positive relationship between trust and happiness has been demonstrated by the literature. However, it is not clear how much this relationship depends on environmental conditions. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 is considered one of the most catastrophic events in human history. This...