Authority and trust in US culture and society : interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives / Günter Leypoldt, Manfred Berg (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leypoldt, Günter, editor.

Berg, Manfred, 1959- editor.

Series:

American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 30.

American Culture Studies ; volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority--Social aspects--United States.

Authority.

Trust--Social aspects--United States.

Trust.

Social psychology--United States.

Social psychology.

Trust--Social aspects.

Authority--Social aspects.

United States.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Authority and trust in U.S. culture and society : interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives

Place of Publication:

[Bielefeld, Germany] : Transcript, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Authority and Trust in the United States p. 9 / Günter Leypoldt

The Decline of Political Trust and the Rise of Populism in the United States p. 37 / Manfred Berg

Waning Trust in (Scientific) Experts and Expertise?

Recent Evidence from the United States and Elsewhere p. 61 / Martin Thunert

Shifting Meridians of Global Authority

Who Is Pushing in Which Direction, and Why? p. 87 / Florian Böller and Sebastian Harnisch

Trust and the City

Analyzing Trust from a Socio-Spatial Perspective p. 111 / Ulrike Gerhard and Judith Keller and Cosima Werner

"We must trust that look of hers"

William Dean Howells's Urban Theory of Trust and Trustworthiness in A Hazard of Mew Fortunes (1890) p. 135 / Margit Peterfy

"We believe that we have a right to revelations, visions, and dreams from God"

Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transformation of Religious Authority in the Antebellum Period p. 167 / Jan Stievermann and Claudia Jetter

The Trust Debate in the Literature of the American Renaissance p. 191 / Dietmar Schloss

Authority, Genealogy, Infrastructure

Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Transatlantic Relationality p. 223 / Tim Sommer

Shoppers, Worshippers, Culture Warriors

Reading and the Hermeneutics of Trust p. 245 / Gunter Leypoldt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783837651898

3837651894

OCLC:

1242600236

Publisher Number:

9783837651898