Our Approach
The EnTrust team aims at investigating the constitutive relation between office accountability and endogenous institutional trustworthiness.
Our Methodology
Study a negativo of officeholders’ reactions to institutional dysfunctions (e.g. corruption as contestatory action) as they offer a special insight about the relation between (deficits of) office accountability and (the lack of) endogenous institutional trustworthiness.
Analysis of the various kinds of the mixed moral feelings (e.g., self-righteousness, anger, guilt or shame), more or less fittingly, associated with officeholders’ contestatory reactions to institutional failures, for the mobilization of internal resources of self-correction through officeholders’ interrelated action.
Our Research focus
- Endogenous constitutive relation between institutional action and the trustworthiness inherent to the dynamics of officeholders’ interaction.
- How the internal emotional capital of an institution should be mobilized to activate an institution’s capacity of self-correction.
- Analysis of the grounds of officeholders’ contestatory reactions to deficits of office accountability as indicative of a lack of endogenous institutional trustworthiness.