Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, ...

In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome...

In his ground-breaking book, the leading political philosopher Russell Hardin develops a new theo...

Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand h...

Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand h...

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of tole...

If trust is sometimes the rational response in interpersonal relations, then it can also be ratio...

What does it mean to "e;trust?"e; What makes us feel secure enough to place our confidenc...

Some social theorists claim that trust is necessary for the smooth functioning of a democratic so...

The collapse of the Soviet empire stands as a dramatic reminder that political institutions are h...

In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conf...

Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institu...