Trust Cultures and the Politics of Relational Legitimacy: Rethinking Trust from the Global South

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza · Routledge · Forthcoming, 1 December 2026

How do people judge institutions through relationships, cultural expectations, and experiences of recognition? This book develops trust cultures and relational legitimacy as a way to approach that question from the Global South.

It places Philippine experience in conversation with wider debates about trust and political authority, asking how competence, sincerity, care, authority, and belonging become recognizable—and contested—in public life.

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