Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
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Edited by:
Günter Leypoldt
About this book
In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production. Exploring the nexus between authority and trust is crucial to understand the loss of legitimacy experienced by political, social, and cultural institutions not only in the United States but in Western democracies at large.
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Authority and Trust in the United States Günter Leypoldt Open Access Download PDF |
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Manfred Berg Open Access Download PDF |
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Recent Evidence from the United States and Elsewhere Martin Thunert Open Access Download PDF |
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Who Is Pushing in Which Direction, and Why? Florian Böller and Sebastian Harnisch Open Access Download PDF |
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Analyzing Trust from a Socio-Spatial Perspective Ulrike Gerhard, Judith Keller and Cosima Werner Open Access Download PDF |
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William Dean Howells’s Urban Theory of Trust and Trustworthiness in A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) Margit Peterfy Open Access Download PDF |
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Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transformation of Religious Authority in the Antebellum Period Jan Stievermann and Claudia Jetter Open Access Download PDF |
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Dietmar Schloss Open Access Download PDF |
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Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Transatlantic Relationality Tim Sommer Open Access Download PDF |
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Reading and the Hermeneutics of Trust Günter Leypoldt Open Access Download PDF |
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