Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges
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Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges

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Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges

About this book

Banning minarets by referendum in Switzerland, publicly burning Korans in the United States, prohibiting kirpans in public spaces in Canada—these are all examples of the rising backlash against diversity that is spreading across multicultural societies. Trust has always been precarious, and never more so than as a result of increased immigration. The number of religions, races, ethnicities, and cultures living together in democratic communities and governed by shared political institutions is rising. The failure to construct public policy to cope with this diversity—to ensure that trust can withstand the pressure that diversity can pose—is a failure of democracy. The threat to trust originates in the perception that the values and norms that should underpin a public culture are no longer truly shared. Therefore, societies must focus on building trust through a revitalized public culture. In Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges, Patti Tamara Lenard plots a course for this revitalization. She argues that trust is at the center of effective democratic politics, that increasing ethnocultural diversity as a result of immigration may generate distrust, and therefore that democratic communities must work to generate the conditions under which trust between newcomers and "native" citizens can be built, so that the quality of democracy is sustained.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. CIP Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges
  6. Notes to Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Trust Defined
  8. Notes to Chapter 1
  9. Chapter 2: Trust as a Foundational Democratic Value
  10. Notes to Chapter 2
  11. Chapter 3: Distrust, Mistrust, and Democracy
  12. Notes to Chapter 3
  13. Chapter 4: Public Culture and Trust
  14. Notes to Chapter 4
  15. Chapter 5: Trust and Ethnocultural Diversity in Multicultural Democracies
  16. Notes to Chapter 5
  17. Chapter 6: Severely Divided Societies, Trust, and the Struggle for Democracy
  18. Notes to Chapter 6
  19. Chapter 7: Guiding Trust Building in Democracies
  20. Notes to Chapter 7
  21. Conclusion: The Challenges of Multiculturalism?
  22. Notes to Conclusion
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. COVER Back