Book contents
- The Trust Revolution
- The Trust Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riding with Strangers
- Part I
- 1 The Collapse of Trust
- 2 Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3 Trust and Human Flourishing
- 4 A Typology of Trust
- 5 The Genealogy of Trust
- 6 The Market for Trust
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
1 - The Collapse of Trust
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2019
- The Trust Revolution
- The Trust Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riding with Strangers
- Part I
- 1 The Collapse of Trust
- 2 Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3 Trust and Human Flourishing
- 4 A Typology of Trust
- 5 The Genealogy of Trust
- 6 The Market for Trust
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
Summary
Trust appears to be falling, if not collapsing. Data from the 2014 General Social Survey, the National Opinion Research Center’s poll of US attitudes, found that only 30 percent of respondents agreed that people could generally be trusted, down from 46 percent in 1972. In his 2000 book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam documents and laments the fall of civil engagement by US citizens and claims that a consequence of this will be the erosion of trust in our social fabric. Based on polling data, Putnam’s prediction seems to be coming true.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Trust RevolutionHow the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government, pp. 11 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019