本项目在对国内外制度信任、信任危机等相关文献系统梳理的基础上，把制度信任划分为“对制度的信任”、“基于制度的信任”两种类型，提出了制度信任形成机制的整体研究框架。本课题拟研究制度信任的内涵、结构与类型，针对两不同类型的制度信任开发测量量表；在此基础上，以我国实际发生案例为素材或背景，综合采用案例分析、田野实验、情境模拟实验、问卷调查等研究方法就制度信任的形成、演化进行理论构建和实证检验。具体而言：首先，对制度与信任的动态演化机制进行理论刻画，揭示制度信任的形成机制及信任的制度化过程；其次，从制度理论视角分析 “对制度的信任”的形成机制，“对制度的信任”对“基于制度的信任”的影响机制；最后，对信任制度化的动力、过程及演化机制进行刻画与检验。本课题对于推动信任理论、制度信任、公共危机管理理论的发展，及我国转型背景下制度信任构建、危机管理实践都具有重要的理论价值和现实指导意义。

On the basis of the systematical review of the literature about institutional trust and trust crisis, this project divides institutional trust into two types: “trust in institution” and “institutional-based trust”, and proposes a whole research framework for the formation of institutional trust. The project analyzes the concept, structure and dimension of institutional trust, and develops a scale of institutional trust according to two types of institutional trust. Then, by a variety of methods such as case studies, field experiments, situational simulation experiments, we construct a theory framework of the formation and evolution of institutional trust and test it. First, by analyzing the dynamic evolution mechanism between institution and trust, we reveal the formation mechanism of institutional trust and the process of trust institutionalization. Second, from the view of institutional theory, we analyze the formation mechanism of “trust institution” and the influential mechanism of “ institutional-based trust” on “trust institution”. Third, we describe and test the driving force, process and evolution mechanism of trust institutionalization. This project has important theoretical implications in trust, institutional trust, and public crisis management theory. In the mean time, it has theoretical and practical implications for constructing institutional trust and crisis management practice under the context of social and economic transformation in China.