A cientista política Patti Lenard (Ottawa) será a editora da edição "Democracia e Confiança" do periódico The Monist. Serão aceitos trabalhos sobre para o papel da sociedade civil, das associações e medidores de confiança institucional no funcionamento de democracias. Artigos serão aceitos até janeiro de 2015.
Patti Lenard é autora do livro Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges .
The Monist: Trust and Democracy (deadline january 2015)
I’m editing an issue of the Monist, on Trust and Democracy, to be published in January 2016. Submissions due January 2015.
The role of trust in democracies is typically taken for granted: democracies are successful if and only if they are underpinned by widespread trust relations among their citizens. When citizens trust each other, and when they trust their political leaders, citizens will voluntarily comply with the rules and regulations that govern their lives; in other words, they will cooperate to bring about the benefits typically attributed to living under democratic rule. One measure of widespread trust is the willingness of citizens to participate in civil society organizations where they learn to cooperate and therefore to trust others. This special issue of The Monistwill focus on the relationship between trust and democracy, for example as outlined by scholars such as Robert Putnam, Pierre Rosanvallon, and Mark Warren. Contributors are asked to focus on questions including but not limited to the following: Is trust essential to democracy? Is trust the right concept with which to explain effective democratic performance, or are other factors (for example, social capital) better suited to do so? How does trust enable democracy to function?
Interested authors should be in touch with me at patti.lenard@uottawa.ca
