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This comment on Beugelsdijk's (2006) critique of trust and its measurement argues that it misses the mark, and that there is neither a theoretical nor an empirical foundation for thinking that the macro and micro foundations of trust or its measurement are different from each other. Generalised trust is more than a simple illusion hiding behind institutional structures.
Eric M. Uslaner (Thu,) studied this question.