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Will Jennings, Daniel Devine, Viktor Valgarðsson, Jennifer Gaskell, Gerry Stoker - Trust in Crisis?, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Trust in Crisis?

How Trust, Mistrust and Distrust Shape Democratic Governance

Av Will Jennings, Daniel Devine, Viktor Valgarðsson, Jennifer Gaskell, Gerry Stoker

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As the future of liberal democracy hangs in the balance, citizens' lack of trust in political systems is increasingly blamed for democratic decline. Trust in Crisis? questions this claim, asking whether there is truly a global crisis of political trust and how important trust is when societies face disruption. Drawing on extensive cross-national quantitative and qualitative evidence, the authors examine how citizens form trust judgements and whether a lack of trust is synonymous with 'distrust', or can reflect a more constructive 'mistrust'. They reveal a long-term global decline in political trust, show how trust varies across groups of citizens and responds to shocks, and demonstrate that people in different cultural contexts evaluate trustworthiness in similar ways. Trust in Crisis? also explains why trust matters - especially during a global pandemic - and explores how political trust might be rebuilt when it matters most.
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Will Jennings is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton. Between 2019 and 2023 he led the TrustGov project funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) exploring patterns of trust in national and global governance. He is also an Elections Analyst for Sky News. Daniel Devine is Associate Professor of Public Opinion and Behaviour at the University of Southampton. He has published extensively on political trust and related topics in leading academic journals and is the co-editor (with Professor Malcolm Fairbrother) of A Research Agenda for Political Trust (2026). Viktor Valgarðsson is Adjunct Lecturer in Politics at the University of Iceland. He previously held Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Southampton and was Research Fellow on the TrustGov research project there. His research is focused on political trust and its implications for democracy. Jennifer Gaskell is Research Manager at the University of Southampton on a project that maps future populations for climate change mitigation. Her background is in the uses of new technologies for development and peacebuilding. Between 2019 and 2023, she led the qualitative work on the TrustGov project. Gerry Stoker OBE is Chair of Governance at the University of Southampton. His work is widely cited and includes the prize-winning Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work. He has held visiting professorial positions in South Africa, Iceland and Australia and has been an invited speaker to seminars throughout Europe and beyond.

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'Trust in Crisis' is an outstanding and timely book. Combining conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, and remarkable empirical scope, the authors provide a compelling account of how trust, mistrust, and distrust shape democratic politics in an era of profound uncertainty. A major scholarly achievement, it will become essential reading for anyone seeking to understand what makes political institutions worthy of trust in an age of recurring crises.' Eri Bertsou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of St. Gallen

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