Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China, and an Honorary Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark. He has also been a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of nine books, including The Moral Foundations of Trust; Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life; Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion; and The Historical Roots of Corruption: Mass Education, Economic Inequality, and State Capacity, as well as more than 150 articles.

Part I. Approaches to the Study of Trust
Chapter 1: The Study of Trust
Eric M. Uslaner
Chapter 2: Measuring Trust
Paul C. Bauer and Markus Freitag
Chapter 3: Social and Political Trust
Kenneth Newton, Dietlind Stolle, and Sonja Zmerli
Chapter 4: Trust and National Identity
Patti Tamara Lenard and David Miller
Chapter 5: Trust and Democracy
Mark E. Warren
Chapter 6: Ingroup-Outgroup Trust: Barriers, Benefits, and Bridges
Roderick M. Kramer
Part II. Where Does Social Trust Come From?
Chapter 7: Biological and Psychological Influences on Interpersonal and Political Trust
Matthew Cawvey, Matthew Hayes, Damarys Canache, and Jeffery J. Mondak
Chapter 8: Trust and Participation in Associations
Pamela Paxton and Robert Ressler
Part III. How Different Groups Develop Social Trust
Chapter 9: Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust
Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov
Chapter 10: Cultural Persistence or Experiential Adaptation? A Review of Studies Using Immigrants to Examine the Roots of Trust
Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov
Chapter 11: Trust and Minority Groups
Rima Wilkes and Cary Wu
Part IV. Social Trust and Rational Choice
Chapter 12: Trust and Rational Choice
Karen S. Cook and Jessica J. Santana
Chapter 13: Trust Experiments, Trust Games, and Surveys
Rick K. Wilson
Chapter 14: Trust Games: Game-Theoretic Approaches to Embedded Trust
Vincent Buskens, Vincenz Frey, and Werner Raub
Part V. Comparative Studies of Trust
Chapter 15: Trust in Newly Democratic Regimes
Natalia Letki
Chapter 16: Social and Political Trust in Developing Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Robert Mattes and Alejandro Moreno
Part VI. Outcomes of Social Trust
Chapter 17: Trust and the Welfare State
Staffan Kumlin, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, and Atle Haugsgjerd
Chapter 18: New Evidence on Trust and Well-Being
John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, and Shun Wang
Chapter 19: Trust and Population Health
Ichiro Kawachi
Part VII. Political Consequences of Social Trust
Chapter 20: Trust and Corruption
Jong-sung You
Chapter 21: Trust and Tax Morale
Ho Fai Chan, Mohammad Wangsit Supriyadi, and Benno Torgler
Chapter 22: Social Trust and Economic Growth
Christian Bjørnskov
Part VIII. Political Trust: Where Does It Come From, Why It Matters
Chapter 23: Foundations of Political Trust
Ola Listhaug and Tor Georg Jacobsen
Chapter 24: Political Trust and Polarization
Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph
Chapter 25: Economic Performance and Political Trust
Tom W.G. van der Meer
Chapter 26: Trust and Elections
Marc Hooghe
Chapter 27: Trust in Justice
Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, and Mike Hough
Part IX. Trust in International Relations
Chapter 28: Trust in International Actors
Paul R. Brewer, Kimberly Gross, and Timothy Vercellotti
Chapter 29: Trust in International Politics
Brian Christopher Rathbun

This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors.
The rich assortment of essays on these themes addresses questions such as: How does national identity shape trust, and how does trust form in developing countries and in new democracies? Are minority groups less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries? Does group interaction build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and, in turn, does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust considers these and other questions of critical importance for current scholarly investigations of trust.