Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?
Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?
复制标题
DOI：
10.2307/3089510
复制
发表时间：
2000-05
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
P. Cerny;S. Pharr;R. Putnam
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
P. Cerny;S. Pharr;R. Putnam
具有明显讽刺意味的是，随着民主在世界各地取代其他形式的治理，最成熟和最繁荣的民主国家（美国和加拿大，西欧国家和日本）的公民越来越多地报告对政府的不满和沮丧。在这里，今天工作的一些最有影响力的政治科学家研究了为什么这是如此独特的一卷在其原始数据的出版和其结论，即公众对民主领导人和机构的低信心是实际表现的函数，不断变化的期望，罗伯特·普特南通过三边委员会和美国艺术学院指导的研究项目的高潮这些论文提供了新的数据，可以进行更直接的跨国界比较，并比以前更详细地了解国家内部的趋势。它们表明，三边民主国家的公民不满不是社会结构磨损、经济不安全、冷战结束或公众犬儒主义的结果。相反，撰稿人得出结论，问题在于政府和政治本身。问题的根源包括政府在一个相互依存的世界中采取行动的能力减弱，机构绩效下降，再加上新的公众期望和对信息的使用改变了人们评判政府的标准。尽管作者在方法、意识形态亲和力和解释上存在分歧，它们坚持一个统一的框架，并将自己局限于二十世纪的最后四分之一。这一重点-再加上大量的原创研究成果和各章的统一力量-使这一卷超越了其他努力，以解决公众对民主治理不满这一重要和日益国际化的问题。这本书将有明显的吸引力，为广大观众的政治科学家，政治家，政策书呆子，以及仍然相当大的一群政治头脑的公民在大西洋和太平洋两岸。
It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western European nations, and Japan) increasingly report dissatisfaction and frustration with their governments. Here, some of the most influential political scientists at work today examine why this is so in a volume unique in both its publication of original data and its conclusion that low public confidence in democratic leaders and institutions is a function of actual performance, changing expectations, and the role of information.The culmination of research projects directed by Robert Putnam through the Trilateral Commission and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, these papers present new data that allow more direct comparisons across national borders and more detailed pictures of trends within countries than previously possible. They show that citizen disaffection in the Trilateral democracies is not the result of frayed social fabric, economic insecurity, the end of the Cold War, or public cynicism. Rather, the contributors conclude, the trouble lies with governments and politics themselves. The sources of the problem include governments' diminished capacity to act in an interdependent world and a decline in institutional performance, in combination with new public expectations and uses of information that have altered the criteria by which people judge their governments.Although the authors diverge in approach, ideological affinity, and interpretation, they adhere to a unified framework and confine themselves to the last quarter of the twentieth century. This focus--together with the wealth of original research results and the uniform strength of the individual chapters--sets the volume above other efforts to address the important and increasingly international question of public dissatisfaction with democratic governance. This book will have obvious appeal for a broad audience of political scientists, politicians, policy wonks, and that still sizable group of politically minded citizens on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific.