Rethinking political distrust
Rethinking political distrust
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DOI：
10.1017/s1755773919000080
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Bertsou, Eri
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作者：
Bertsou, Eri
政治不信任的增加已经成为许多老牌民主国家的一个常见的观察评论，它经常被用来解释当前的政治现象。与大多数学术研究只关注信任的概念，而不把不信任理论化相反，本文通过分析政治不信任做出了贡献。它认为，公民对政府和政治机构的不信任对民主政治构成了威胁，并澄清了在既定民主国家中观察到的不信任与古典“自由主义不信任”之间的关系，这被认为是有利于民主。此外，它解决了信任和不信任之间的关系，确定了一系列的功能之间的不对称的两个概念，在政治学的理论和实证工作的重要影响。文章认为，基于对无能、不道德行为和不一致利益的评估，对政治不信任进行概念化，可以为未来旨在了解政治不信任的原因、后果和潜在补救措施的研究提供富有成效的基础。
Increasing political distrust has become a commonplace observational remark across many established democracies, and it is often used to explain current political phenomena. In contrast to most scholarship that focuses solely on the concept of trust and leaves distrust untheorized, this article makes a contribution by analysing political distrust. It argues that citizen distrust of government and political institutions poses a threat for democratic politics and clarifies the relationship between the distrust observed in established democracies and classical 'liberal distrust', which is considered beneficial for democracy. Further, it addresses the relationship between trust and distrust, identifying a series of functional asymmetries between the two concepts, with important implications for theoretical and empirical work in political science. The article suggests that a conceptualization of political distrust based on evaluations of incompetence, unethical conduct and incongruent interests can provide a fruitful ground for future research that aims to understand the causes, consequences, and potential remedies for political distrust.