The article analyses three issues around the debate on the relationship between trust and democratic institutions: 1) what is the right approach to the concept of citizenship, considering the controversy between the classic liberal conception and the comunitarist one?; 2) what to say about the traditional democratic theories's premises, that we should expect from the citizens distrust rather than trust, if we want to keep political power in its proper limits; 3) if we admit trust, how our knowledge of it could be enhanced in seeing it as a many-dimensional, instead of one-dimensional, phenomenon?
Trust; Democratic Institutions; Citizenship; Liberalism; Comunitarism