Politikai bizalmi válság
Crisis of Political Trust

Summary/Abstract: In this essay I attempt to get a clear picture of how the problems of the crisis of political trust can be approached. After analysing the notions of crisis and trust, the concept of the 'crisis of trust' is defined. Four basic political trust relations are then distinguished and analysed: the one between citizens, the one between politicians, the one between politicians and their supporters, and the one between the political elite and the constituency. In my view, there is practically no such thing as a general 'crisis of political trust' but there are various crises of trust between subjects of various political relationships. Finally, by way of illustration, I allude to certain developments of Hungarian politics, strictly in terms defined and used in the essay.

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