Living in an Age of Mistrust
Trust is a concept familiar to most. Whether we are cognizant of it or not, we experience it on a daily basis. Yet trust is quickly eroding in civic and political life. Whether enabling the rise of more ideologically extreme political candidates in the United States and Europe, to undermining the global institutions which underpin the liberal international order, the political and social consequences of this decline in trust are profound. What are the foundations of trust? What explains its apparent decline in society? Is there a way forward for rebuilding trust in our leaders and institutions? How should we study the role of trust across a diverse range of policy issues and problems?
Given its complexity, trust as an object of study cannot be claimed by any single discipline. Rather than vouch for an overarching theory of trust, Living in an Age of Mistrust synthesizes existing perspectives across multiple disciplines to offer a truly comprehensive examination of this concept and topic of research. Using an analytical framework that encompasses rational and cultural (or sociological) dimensions of trust, the contributions found therein provide a wide range of policy issues both domestic and international to explore the apparent decline in trust, its impact on social and political life, and efforts to rebuild trust.
Andrew Yeo is Associate Professor of Politics, Director of Asian Studies, and a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests (Cambridge 2011), and is completing two book manuscripts: the first on the evolution of East Asias regional architecture, and a second co-edited book on North Korean human rights and transnational advocacy. He is the recipient of Catholic Universitys Outstanding Young Faculty Research Award in 2013 and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Matthew Green is Associate Professor of Politics and a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. Dr. Green is author of Underdog Politics: The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives and The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership, both published by Yale University Press. He is also a coauthor of Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nations Capital. He served as President of the National Capital Area Political Science Association in 201516. He has a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a MA and MPhil from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
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24 Rethinking Governance
Ruling, Rationalities and Resistance
Edited by Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes
25 Governmentality after Neoliberalism
Edited by Mark Bevir
26 Transformational Public Policy
A New Strategy for Coping with Uncertainty and Risk
Mark Matthews
27 The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims
A Central/Eastern European Perspective
Plamen Makariev
28 Marriage and Values in Public Policy
Conflicts in the UK, the US and Australia
Elizabeth van Acker
29 Europeanisation, Good Governance and Corruption in the Public Sector
The Case of Turkey
Didem Soyaltin
30 Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
Activating the Unemployed
Edited by Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka and Flemming Larsen
31 Decentring Health Policy
Learning from British Experiences in Healthcare Governance
Edited by Mark Bevir and Justin Waring
32 Living in an Age of Mistrust
An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get It Back
Edited by Andrew I. Yeo & Matthew N. Green