Democracy and TrustMark E. Warren Cambridge University Press, 28 okt 1999 - 370 pagina's Surveys suggest an erosion of trust in government, among individuals, and between groups. Although these trends are often thought to be bad for democracy, the relationship between democracy and trust is paradoxical. Trust can develop where interests converge, but in politics interests conflict. Democracy recognizes that politics does not provide a natural terrain for robust trust relations, and so includes a healthy distrust of the interests of others, especially the powerful. Democratic systems institutionalize distrust by providing many opportunities for citizens to oversee those empowered with the public trust. At the same time, trust is a generic social building block of collective action, and for this reason alone democracy cannot do without trust. At a minimum, democratic institutions depend on a trust among citizens sufficient for representation, resistance, and alternative forms of governance. Bringing together social science and political theory, this book provides a valuable exploration of these central issues. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
Do we want trust in government? | 22 |
How can we trust our fellow citizens? | 42 |
Trust wellbeing and democracy | 88 |
Democracy and social capital | 121 |
Liberty against the democratic state on the historical and contemporary sources of American distrust | 151 |
Trust voluntary association and workable democracy the contemporary American discourse of civil society | 208 |
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affective trust altruistic trust American analysis argues authoritarian behavior belief citizens civic engagement civil society Claus Offe cognitive collective action concept of trust confidence conflicts context cooperation cracy decline deliberative deliberative democracy demo democracy and trust democratic democratic institutions depend discourse distrust effects elites ethical expectations factors forms Fukuyama groups Hardin herrenvolk important individuals Inglehart institutionalized interaction interests interpersonal trust issues kinds of trust Luhmann Mansbridge mass means ment modern moral neoconservative Niklas Luhmann norms one's organizations participation particularized trust percent person Pew Research Center political culture potential problem public sphere Putnam reason reciprocity regime relations of trust relatively risk role Rom Harré Ronald Inglehart rules sanctions sense social capital social trust stability stable democracy strangers structure subjective well-being theory tion traditional trust in government trust relations truster trustworthy University Press Uslaner variables voluntary associations vote vulnerabilities World Values Survey
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