Why People Don’t Trust Government / / ed. by Philip D. Zelikow, David C. King, Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [1997] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 1997 |
Language: | English |
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Table of 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