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Edited by
Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)

Table of Contents

Preface
Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam

Foreword
Samuel P. Huntingdon

Introduction: What's Troubling the Trilateral Democracies?
Robert D. Putnam, Susan J. Pharr, and Russell J. Dalton

Part I. Declining Performance of Democratic Institutions

• The Public Trust
  Russell Hardin Chapter
• Confidence in Public Institutions: Faith, Culture, or Performance?
  Kenneth Newton and Pippa Norris
• Distrust of Government: Explaining American Exceptionalism
  Anthony King

Part II. Sources of the Problem: Declining Capacity

• Interdependence and Democratic Legitimation
  Fritz W. Sharpf
• Confidence, Trust, International Relations, and Lessons From Smaller Democracies
  Peter J. Katzenstein
• The Economics of Civic Trust
  Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg

Part III. Sources of the Problem: Erosion of Fidelity

• Officials' Misconduct and Public Distrust: Japan and the Trilateral Democracies
  Susan J. Pharr
• Social Capital, Beliefs in Government, and Political Corruption
  Donatella Della Porta

Part IV. Sources of the Problem: Changes in Information and Criteria of Evaluation

• The Impact of Television on Civic Malaise
  Pippa Norris
• Value Change and Democracy
  Russell J. Dalton
• Mad Cows and Social Activists: Contentious Politics in the Trilateral Democracies
  Sidney Tarrow
• Political Mistrust and Party Realignment in Japan
  Hideo Otake

Afterword
Ralf Dahrendorf

Appendix: The Major Cross-National Opinion Surveys
Russell J. Dalton