{"id":5208,"date":"2007-05-11T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T12:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2007-05-11T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T12:07:14","slug":"trust-and-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5208","title":{"rendered":"trust and participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just to illustrate my argument from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/mt\/archives\/2007\/05\/lessons-from-th.html\">last Wednesday<\/a>. I claimed that we cannot have massive new government programs without public trust, unless the programs are very simple and transparent&#8211;which is virtually impossible in the case of health care. The necessary trust has eroded, in part because people don&#8217;t belong to participatory groups that seek their voluntary support and that influence the state. Unions are a major example of such groups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/trustingovt.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>This graph cannot demonstrate a causal relationship among the three trends: falling trust, declining union membership, and declining participation at the local level. But I hypothesize a connection.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this graph is my belated response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/mt\/archives\/2007\/04\/the-actually-en.html#comments\">comment by David Moore<\/a>, which I had missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just to illustrate my argument from last Wednesday. I claimed that we cannot have massive new government programs without public trust, unless the programs are very simple and transparent&#8211;which is virtually impossible in the case of health care. The necessary trust has eroded, in part because people don&#8217;t belong to participatory groups that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}