Mapping & Harnessing Public Mistrust: Constitutional Values Survey 2023-27

公众信任度的下降被公认为民主政府的一个问题，包括在澳大利亚。然而，解决办法更加难以捉摸，因为不信任和不信任不仅在我们现有的政治和宪法传统中发挥着消极的、而且是积极的作用，这一现实令人困惑。该项目旨在全面描绘公民政治态度和经历中不信任的积极价值，以之前的宪法价值观调查(2008-21)为基础，测试信任内容的新衡量标准，包括首次对随时间变化的信任进行纵向研究。这些结果将为解决三个关键政策改革难题提供具体解决方案，为总体上维持公众信任提供更好的答案。

Declining public trust is well recognised as a problem of democratic government, including in Australia. However solutions are more elusive, confounded by the reality that mistrust and distrust play not just negative, but positive roles in our existing political and constitutional traditions. This project aims to be the first to comprehensively map the positive values of mistrust in citizen political attitudes and experience, building on previous Constitutional Values Surveys (2008-21) to test new measures of the content of trust including a first-ever longitudinal study of changing trust over time. The results will inform concrete solutions to three key policy reform dilemmas, providing better answers for sustaining public trust overall.