Eric M. Uslaner

Segregation and Mistrust

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By examining social networks in North America, Europe and Australia, this book argues segregation, not diversity reduces trust between people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521151634
• ISBN-10: 0521151635
• Artikelnr.: 36029007

Autorenporträt

Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is Senior Research Fellow, Center for American Law and Political Science, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University (Denmark) and in 2011 and 2012 was named one of 100 top Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America (http://www.trustacrossamerica.org/offerings-thought-leaders.shtml )He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage and C.V. Starr Foundations. He was the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra in 2010 and in 1981-82 was Fulbright Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Trust, diversity, and segregation
2. Contact, diversity, and segregation
3. Building trust in a segregated society: the United States
4. Canada: trust, integration, and the search for identity
5. The United Kingdom: sleepwalking or wide awake?
6. Sweden and Australia: newer immigrants, trust, and multiculturalism
7. Altruism and segregation
8. Where you sit depends on where you stand
9. The farmer's daughter and intergroup contact.