The Education of Citizens: Confidence in Government
Educated by Initiative, p.72
University of Michigan Press
11/12/2009
: 10.3998/mpub.11467.8
One of the distinguishing features of American politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is a pervasive sense of public distrust of, frustration with, and alienation from government from Washington, DC, to state capitals. A mid-1990s Gallup Poll, for example, revealed that only 20 percent of respondents said that they trusted the federal government all or some of the time—half the percentage during the Watergate scandal of 1974.¹ Stated differently, during the 1990s, approximately three of four Americans did not trust the government to do what is right most of the time. The public’s expressed confidence in
- The Education of Citizens: Confidence in Government
- Daniel A. SmithCaroline J. Tolbert
- Book chapter
- Educated by Initiative, p.72
- University of Michigan Press
- 10.3998/mpub.11467.8
- English
- 11/12/2009
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
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