TY  - BOOK
AU  - Altman,Drew E.
AU  - Benson,John M.
AU  - Blendon,Robert J.
AU  - Bok,Derek
AU  - Brodie,Mollyann
AU  - Brossard,Mario
AU  - Inglehart,Ronald
AU  - James,Matt
AU  - King,David C.
AU  - Lawrence,Robert Z.
AU  - Mansbridge,Jane
AU  - May,Ernest R.
AU  - Morin,Richard
AU  - Neustadt,Richard E.
AU  - Nye Jr,Joseph S.
AU  - Nye,Joseph S.
AU  - Orren,Gary
AU  - Pharr,Susan J.
AU  - Zelikow,Philip D.
TI  - Why People Don’t Trust Government
SN  - 9780674275928
AV  - JK1764 .W49 1997
U1  - 306.2/0973/09049 21
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Allegiance
KW  - United States
KW  - Political alienation
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: The Decline of Confidence in Government --; PART ONE The Scope and Performance of Government --; One. The Evolving Scope of Government --; Two. Measuring the Performance of Government --; Three. Fall from Grace: The Public’s Loss of Faith in Government --; PART TWO. The Menu of Explanations --; Four. Is It Really the Economy, Stupid? --; Five. Social and Cultural Causes of Dissatisfaction with U.S. Government --; Six. The Polarization of American Parties and Mistrust of Government --; Seven. The Politics of Mistrust --; PART THREE. Data on Public Attitudes Toward Governance --; Eight. Changing Attitudes in America --; Nine. Postmateralist Values and the Erosion of Institutional Authority --; Ten. Public Trust and Democracy in Japan --; Conclusion: Reflections, Conjectures, and Puzzles --; Notes --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades. Three-quarters of Americans said they trusted the Federal government to do the right thing in 1964. Today, only a quarter do. Why the decline? Is this mistrust a healthy reflection of America's long-lasting skepticism of a strong state? Is mistrust a problem for the future of governance? Bringing together essays by leading Harvard scholars, this book explores the roots of mistrust. It first examines government's current scope, its actual performance, and citizens' perceptions of its performance. It then assesses many possible explanations that have been offered for the decline of trust, including the end of the Cold War, elevated expectations following World War II, a weakened economy, the effects of globalization, resentment over political scandals, and incompetence of bureaucrats. The book clarifies thinking about the sources of public disaffection. Mistrust, the contributors find, is largely unrelated to national economic conditions, to challenges of a global economy, to the Cold War, or to bumbling bureaucrats and venal politicians. Rather, they show that the most likely culprits are all around us—an interacting blend of cultural and political conflicts stirred by an increasingly corrosive news media
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275928?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275928
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674275928/original
ER  -