Political Trust in the New Age of Autocratization
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on March 13, 2026
Abstract
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Today’s crises of democracy and the corresponding rise of autocracies are often connected to a lack of trust. This article argues first that distrust also has many legitimate places in democracies, but that, ultimately democracies do indeed require a ...
Today’s crises of democracy and the corresponding rise of autocracies are often connected to a lack of trust. This article argues first that distrust also has many legitimate places in democracies, but that, ultimately democracies do indeed require a ...