Edelman’s Trust Barometer examines trust in a range of institutions,

Institutionalists and insurrectionists have a common enemy: disengagement. As mistrust in institutions rises, most people don’t abandon institutions and become insurrectionists—they exit civic life.

mySociety, a British organization dedicated to improving civic systems, launched a site, FixMyStreet, allowing citizens to report potholes and other issues so their local city council members could follow up and address them.

2006 Gallup World poll, they asked people in eighty-six countries whether they would expect a neighbor, a stranger, or the police to return their wallet if they found it.

Transformative movements understand that some participants in thin actions will want to take thicker steps, owning the movement themselves, using their own stories to encourage the voices of others. Architects of social movements neglect these people at their peril.

A 2011 study by the neuroscientist Ryota Kanai at University College London found that young adults who identify as conservative have structurally different brains from those who identify as liberals: they have a larger right amygdala, a part of the brain associated with emotion processing, especially anxiety and fear responses.

Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw, asserts that media’s power comes from influencing what issues appear in public discourse.

it’s a known bug of democratic systems, “the inability of electoral/representative politics to keep its promises [that has] led to the development of indirect forms of democracy.”

When we embrace theories of change that disproportionately favor those positioned to move levers of norms, markets, and code, we need to acknowledge these pitfalls.