The Development of Methodological Tools to Assess Public Confidence in the Civil Servants

The paper presents the results of a scientific analysis of trust as a special form of manifestation of social reality and human existence, certain areas of freedom, the result of co-existence of individuals and social groups. Public trust is a key characteristic of Russian society, which manifests itself as an interpersonal level and at the level of social, including the credibility of the public institutions and the state as a whole.Conceptual development of public trust as a social mechanism for the stabilization of society and the state allowed to consider the phenomenon of "confidence" to the citizens of the state civil servants in the logic of "power - control - citizens' trust - co-management (civic engagement)"