Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
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Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
There is one more layer yet to the problematic nature of a sole focus on voting and electoral politics as the expression of citizenship: the very idea that formal government is what it’s all about. This is politics as a spectator sport at best, rather than a participatory pursuit, and as such is the specialised realm of experts who are a breed apar
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We’re experiencing many crises in America right now, but arguably the meta-crisis is one of social trust.
For decades, there has been a building body of evidence that when people trust each other — including literally responding “yes” to the question “Can most people be trusted?” — lots of important, positive things are easier: income inequality go... See more
For decades, there has been a building body of evidence that when people trust each other — including literally responding “yes” to the question “Can most people be trusted?” — lots of important, positive things are easier: income inequality go... See more
Getting citizens to play an active role in the institutions that govern them has never been easy, but we have decades of research into best practices for encouraging participatory governance.