Aaron Martin is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of two books, Young People and Politics and, with Keith Dowding, Policy Agendas in Australia, and has published widely on public opinion and political behaviour.
""Far from institutional trust being in free-fall, The Trust Gap highlights that in fact there are substantial contrasts in trends both within and across long-established democracies like Spain and Sweden, or the US and Canada. The book provides a useful corrective to the tabloid headlines and uses systematic survey data to explore the reasons behind varying patterns, including the role of institutional performance. An accessible and readable study, this will be invaluable for researchers, scholars and policymakers."" Pippa Norris, Harvard University ""A smart, mythbusting look at trust today, showing where confidence really holds up and what that means for healthy democracies."" Andrew Leigh, Australian MP and author of 'The Shortest History of Economics' “In this must-read book, Martin provides the freshest take that I’ve seen on political trust in decades.” Marc Hetherington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill