dc.contributor.author | Piper, Laurence | |
dc.contributor.author | Anciano, Fiona | |
dc.contributor.author | Bidla, Babongile | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-16T13:29:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-16T13:29:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Piper, L., Anciano, F. and Bidla, B., 2023. Trust is personal and professional: The role of trust in the rise and fall of a South African civil society coalition. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, p.00207152231204988. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231204988 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/9447 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores trust dynamics among a coalition of civil society organizations called Unite Behind that formed in Cape Town, South Africa, in late 2017. Unite Behind was established to demand more accountability from a state marred by corruption and specifically for the resignation of then President Jacob Zuma. When Zuma resigned, the coalition attempted to transition to a social movement campaigning for social justice but declined as a coalition into an organization of sorts. Taking trust as a positive belief in the reliability, truth or ability of an actor or entity, this article argues that conceptions of political and social/ generalized trust are of less importance in explaining the rise and fall of Unite Behind than a combination of personal trust in particular leaders, and a form of particularized trust, namely, trust in other organizations. This notion of organizational trust as a form of particularized trust is of potential wider importance to the analysis of civil society network co-ordination. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd | en_US |
dc.subject | civil society coalition | en_US |
dc.subject | organizational trust | en_US |
dc.subject | particularized trust | en_US |
dc.subject | personal trust | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | Trust is personal and professional: The role of trust in the rise and fall of a South African civil society coalition | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |