Trends in civic engagement and the trust level in Ukraine
Based on the data from national monitoring surveys, the authors demonstrate the trends of civic engagement and the level of trust in public institutions in Ukraine. The article dwells upon the specifics of interpretation of trust in contemporary sociological thought and analyzes its place in the society. It is established that in the social realities of today the phenomenon of trust is one of the main parameters of social capital formation and accumulation, which creates social integrity.
Uslaner, E.M. (2013). Trust as an alternative to risk. Public Choice, 157, 3-4, 629-639.
Fukuyama, F. (2004). Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity. Moscow: AST-Ermak [in Russian]
Luhmann, N. (1979). Trust and Power. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons.
Bourdieu, P. (2005). The formas of capital. Ekonomicheskaya sotsiologiya, 6, 3, 60-74 [in Russian]
Coleman, J. (2001). Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost – Social Sciences and Contemporary World, 3, 122-129 [in Russian]
Ruchka, A.O. (2006). Socio-cultural principles of democratic consolidation. In V. Vorona, M. Shulha (Eds.), Ukrainian society 1992–2006. Sociological monitoring (pp. 347-355). Kyiv: Institute of Sociology NAS of Ukraine [in Ukrainian]
Mishler, W., Rose, R. (2001). What are the origins of political trust? Testing institutional and cultural theories in post-communist societies. Comparative political studies, 34, 1, 30-62.
Newton, K., Zmerli, S. (2011). Three forms of trust and their association. European Political Science Review, 3, 2, 169-200.
Rothstein, B., Uslaner, E. (2005). All for all: equality, corruption, and social trust. World Politics, 58, 1, 41-72.
Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and Self-identity. Stanford (Col.): Stanford Univ. Press.
Sztompka, P. (2012). Trust: the Foundation of Society. Moscow: Logos [in Russian]
Rothstein, B., Stolle, D. (2008). Political Institutions and Generalized Trust. In D. Castiglione, J.W. van Deth, G. Wolleb (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Capital (pp. 273-302). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Balakireva, O.M., Dmytruk, D.A. (2015). Dynamics of institutional trust and electoral activity. Ukr. socìum – Ukrainian Society, 4 (55), 128-142 [in Ukrainian]
Balakireva, O.M., Dmytruk, D.A. (2017). Trends of socio-political attitudes: December 2017. Ukr. socìum – Ukrainian Society, 4 (63), 145-167 [in Ukrainian]