After a certain point, our trust is fairly stable, so there could be a link between our formative experiences and our feelings about politics.
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A new report shows Australians don’t want to be reduced to merely voters. They want a democracy that listens, including between elections.
While Britons are less trusting of those with political authority, they appear to be more trusting in each other.
Political scientists Grant Duncan, talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about what political trust means and how to rebuild it.
The next government faces the daunting challenge of delivering for a public that has lost faith in the idea that it can change anything.
Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price is leading proposals to make lying by politicians a criminal offence.
Political trust is paradoxical. No one should be entrusted with power without conditions.
When parliament blocked a radical MP from taking his seat in parliament, Burke warned that ignoring the people’s democratic will could have disastrous consequences.
When government responses to a natural disaster do not address the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls, women tend to lose trust in the institutions.
When the rot sets in, past governments have found it hard to win back the public.
Finland was recently ranked, for the fifth year in a row, as the world’s happiest country. Trust in others in society plays a large role in what makes people there – and elsewhere – happy.
A new survey shows a strong link between trusting the prime minister and trusting the government, Parliament and political parties.
‘They might be a liar but at least they’re honest.’
Grattan and Martin on the year that was, in politics and economics
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Michelle Grattan sits down with The Conversation's economic editor Peter Martin for a chat about the year that was, and to answer readers' questions.
The cynicism of political lies and the fear of losing control by opening up the corridors of power can’t last.
On the trust divide in politics
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Two of the authors of the first Democracy 2025 report discuss the keys findings about what politicians see as faults in the current political system, and how they think it can be improved.
Michelle Grattan discusses this week in politics with University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher.
University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Leigh Sullivan discusses the week in politics with Michelle Grattan.
Writing in the American progressive journal Democracy, Swan, a former treasurer, warned that the US Democrats could be at risk of the overloaded agenda trap that helped defeat the ALP in May.
Daughters of Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell say parliament wasn’t always a “fort”
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Last week, Michelle Grattan moderated a very special discussion with the daughters of Menzies and Calwell at Parliament House. This podcast episode is a recording of that event.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Instructor of Journalism, University of Oregon
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Communication, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Democracy and Citizen Engagement, Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra
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