Trust and Civil Society

FRAN TONKISS is a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. - ANDREW PASSEY is Head of Research at the National Council for Voluntary Organizations. Recent publications include The UK Voluntary Sector Almanac (with Hems and Jas), and Charitable Giving in Great Britain (with Hems). - LESLIE C. HEMS is Principal Research Associate in the Centre for Civil Society Studies at The John Hopkins University, Baltimore. - NATALIE FENTON is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

• Foreword: R.Dahrendorf Notes on the Contributors Introduction: L.C.Hems & F.Tonkiss Trust and Civil Society; A.B.Seligman Trust, Voluntary Association and Civil Society; A.Passey & F.Tonkiss Faith, Trust and Civil Society; D.Herbert Trust, Social Capital and Economy; F.Tonkiss State, Welfare and Civil Society; F.Powell Trust, Risk and the Environment; P.Macnaghten Trust, Charity and Civil Society; P.Halfpenny Critical Perspectives on Trust and Civil Society; N.Fenton Bibliography Index

'An important contribution to a debate which is going on in many countries. It leaves us with the most difficult of questions: How does one create civil societies? How do we build trust?... understanding what this is about is a good beginning, and this book will help in the process'. - Ralf Dahrendorf, Life Peer and former Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford '...presents a wide-ranging debate about the meaning of trust and civil society...' - John B. Harms, Contemporary Sociology '...a highly stimulating and important collection.' - Candace J. Groudine, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quartely