Pamela Paxton, Ph.D., is an associate professor of sociology at Ohio State University and the co-author (with Melanie Hughes) of Women, Politics, and Power. Parts of this essay are drawn from her 2005 essay for the journal Contexts, “Trust in Decline?” published by the American Sociological Association.
Trust is essential to strong relationships and a healthy society, but it has been declining for decades, report Pamela Paxton and Jeremy Adam Smith.…
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