Trust in Renaissance Electoral Politics.

Discusses how the electoral procedures in Italy during the Renaissance helped lay the foundations for northern Italy's social capital. Ways in which competing factions might have come to accept an external and communal resolution of their disputes; Gap that existed between the language of republican politics and the actual problems that it hoped to resolve; Potentially explosive relationship between the distribution of office and factional conflict; Centrality of public office as the most significant route to honor and status; Renaissance republican method of installing individuals into government offices.