Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did, fueling destructive ideological conflicts and hardened partisanship. In

Americans today don't trust each other and their institutions as much as they once did. The collapse of social and political trust has arguably fueled our incre

With increasingly divergent views and commitments, and an all-or-nothing mindset in political life, it can seem hard to sustain the level of trust in other memb

American politics seems like a war between irreconcilable forces and so we may suspect that political life as such is war. This book confronts these suspicions

This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure