title: The distrust paradox: trust and distrust in the Polish online press, cross-national data reports and public opinion surveys, 2002-2008
abstract: Poland's overall economic, political and social situation is improving. However, in the realm of trust, the Polish press may be judging their countrymen and women too harshly. I argue that there is a disconnect between contemporary popular Polish press articles highlighting the extremely distrustful nature of Polish society and the cross-national data which prove that Poles are in the middle of the pack in comparison to other Eastern European countries when it comes to social trust. This disconn
journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)