Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Ethics at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

“Highly informative as well as rich in insightful contradictions, [Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges is] an invitation to endorse pluralism not as a final horizon or a political telos, but as a policy tool and a heuristic device with emancipatory powers.”—Albena Azmanova Political Theory

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges1 Trust Defined2 Trust as a Foundational Democratic Value3 Distrust, Mistrust, and Democracy4 Public Culture and Trust5 Trust and Ethnocultural Diversity in Multicultural Democracies6 Severely Divided Societies, Trust, and the Struggle for Democracy7 Guiding Trust Building in DemocraciesConclusion: The Challenges of Multiculturalism?NotesBibliographyIndex

Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Ethics at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

“Highly informative as well as rich in insightful contradictions, [Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges is] an invitation to endorse pluralism not as a final horizon or a political telos, but as a policy tool and a heuristic device with emancipatory powers.”—Albena Azmanova Political Theory

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges1 Trust Defined2 Trust as a Foundational Democratic Value3 Distrust, Mistrust, and Democracy4 Public Culture and Trust5 Trust and Ethnocultural Diversity in Multicultural Democracies6 Severely Divided Societies, Trust, and the Struggle for Democracy7 Guiding Trust Building in DemocraciesConclusion: The Challenges of Multiculturalism?NotesBibliographyIndex

Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Ethics at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

“Highly informative as well as rich in insightful contradictions, [Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges is] an invitation to endorse pluralism not as a final horizon or a political telos, but as a policy tool and a heuristic device with emancipatory powers.”—Albena Azmanova Political Theory

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges1 Trust Defined2 Trust as a Foundational Democratic Value3 Distrust, Mistrust, and Democracy4 Public Culture and Trust5 Trust and Ethnocultural Diversity in Multicultural Democracies6 Severely Divided Societies, Trust, and the Struggle for Democracy7 Guiding Trust Building in DemocraciesConclusion: The Challenges of Multiculturalism?NotesBibliographyIndex