Disaffected Democracies : : What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? /

Disaffected Democracies : : What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? / / ed. by Susan J. Pharr, Robert D. Putnam.

It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western European nations, and Japan) increasingly report dissatisfaction and frustration with their governments....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alesina, Alberto,
Dahrendorf, Ralf,
Dalton, Russell J.,
Hardin, Russell,
Huntington, Samuel P.,
Katzenstein, Peter J.,
King, Anthony,
Newton, Kenneth,
Norris, Pippa,
Pharr, Susan J.,
Porta, Donatella della,
Putnam, Robeft D.,
Scharpf, Fritz W.,
Tarrow, Sidney,
Wacziarg, Romain,
Ötake, Hideo,
HerausgeberIn:
Pharr, Susan J.,
Putnam, Robert D.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • ONE. Introduction: What's Troubling the Trilateral Democracies?
  • PART I. Declining Performance of Democratic Institutions
  • TWO. The Public Trust
  • THREE. Confidence in Public Institutions: Faith, Culture, or Performance?
  • FOUR Distrust of Government: Explaining American Exceptionalism
  • PART II .Sources of the Problem: Declining Capacity
  • FIVE. Interdependence and Democratic Legitimation
  • SIX. Confidence, Trust, International Relations, and Lessons from Smaller Democracies
  • SEVEN. The Economics of Civic Trust
  • PART III. Sources of the Problem: Erosion of Fidelity
  • EIGHT. Officials' Misconduct and Public Distrust: Japan and the Trilateral Democracies
  • NINE. Social Capital, Beliefs in Government, and Political Corruption
  • PART IV. Sources of the Problem: Changes in Information and Criteria of Evaluation
  • TEN. The Impact of Television on Civic Malaise
  • ELEVEN. Value Change and Democracy
  • TWELVE. Mad Cows and Social Activists: Contentious Politics in the Trilateral Democracies
  • THIRTEEN. Political Mistrust and Party Dealignment in Japan
  • AFTERWORD
  • APPENDIX: The Major Cross-National Opinion Surveys
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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