Mistrust : why losing faith in institutions provides the tools to transform them /

The rise of mistrust is provoking a crisis for representative democracy-solutions lie in the endless creativity of social movements. From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency advocates to the #MeToo movement, Americans and citizens of democracies worldwide are losing confiden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuckerman, Ethan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Is this thing working?
  • Why we lost trust
  • What we lose when we lose trust
  • The levers of change
  • Institutionalists to the rescue
  • Counter democracy and citizen monitoring
  • Productive disruption
  • Decentralization
  • Do something: efficacy and social change
  • Afterword: Katrina and COVID-19.