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Why People Don’t Trust Government / ed. by Philip D. Zelikow, David C. King, Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674275928
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.2/0973/09049 21
LOC classification:
  • JK1764 .W49 1997
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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