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Wpływ przemian cywilizacyjnych na poziom zaufania publicznego w Polsce
Influence of civilization changes on the level of public trust in Poland

Author(s): Dorota Konopka
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: trust; glocalization; uncertainty; risk; the public sector
Summary/Abstract: The universal feature contemporary civilizational change is progressing process of globalization. It is accompanied by increasing levels of uncertainty, risk and deepening distrust (mistrust) among the participants of this process. These developments take multiple forms and are characterized by different degrees intensity in different spheres of social and economic life. They also do not miss the public sector. The increase in uncertainty and risk is at the same time increasing negative impact on the individual and the public trust. Today, in response to this state of affairs they have become the processes that are called glocalization, or a combination of the general trend of globalization of simultaneous attempts of adaptation and adjustment to local conditions. Particularly interesting direction of theoretical research in this area, it becomes an area which in this section refer to as glocalization public trust. Glocalization processes provide an opportunity to increase public trust. Glocalization of public trust, as new theoretical and methodological approaches in the public sphere is not only need the approval of another way of seeing local processes through the prism of global phenomena, but also the need to introduce adapted to his new governance mechanisms in the public sector in Poland.

  • Page Range: 217-234
  • Page Count: 18
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Language: Polish