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Presidential Leadership and the Resurgence of Trust in Government
Abstract
Are Happy Days for government really here again? Recent polls suggest that the long slide in public confidence in America's political institutions and authorities has finally ended. Ronald Reagan, who came to Washington to bury government rather than praise it, ironically has presided over a restoration of trust in the competence of national leadership. We begin this article by charting the contours of the unanticipated improvement in the public's image of government, assessing the magnitude of the increase in confidence, identifying the social groups whose outlook has changed and specifying the institutions that have gained in popular esteem. Our main purpose, however, is to provide an explanation for the resurgence of trust in government that addresses persistent controversies about the theoretical and empirical status of this concept.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Citrin, J., & Green, D. P.
- Venue
- British Journal of Political Science
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1986-10
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 431-453
- ISSN
- 0007-1234 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2112
- OpenAlex
- W2020437460
- Cited by
- 480
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 15.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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