Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Studying the American people's attitudes toward government / John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
  • Political trust revisited: déjà vu all over again? / Jack Citrin and Samantha Luks
  • We're all in this together: the decline of trust in government, 1958-1996 / John R. Alford
  • Were the Halcyon days really golden? An analysis of Americans' attitudes about the political system, 1945-1965 / Stephen Earl Bennett
  • Public trust in government in the Reagan years and beyond / Virginia A. Chanley, Thomas J. Rudolph, and Wendy M. Rahn
  • Public confidence in the leaders of American governmental institutions / Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr., David J. Houston, and Chris Sissie Hadjiharalambous
  • Linking presidential and congressional approval during unified and divided governments / Jeffrey L. Bernstein
  • Is Washington really the problem? / Eric M. Uslaner
  • Explaining public support for devolution: the role of political trust / Marc J. Hetherington and John D. Nugent
  • On red capes and charging bulls: how and why conservative politicians and interest groups promoted public anger / Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris
  • A reassessment of who's to blame: a positive case for the public evaluation of Congress / David W. Brady and Sean M. Theriault
  • Process performance: public reaction to legislative policy debate / Carolyn L. Funk
  • Trust in federal government: the phenomenon and its antecedents / Diana Owen and Jack Dennis
  • The psychology of public dissatisfaction with government / Tom R. Tyler
  • The means is the end / John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.