1. Erosion of confidence in advanced democracies

   • Mattei Dogan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 29

2. Crisis of confidence: The case of Britain

   • Dennis Kavanagh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 30 - 41

3. Immigration as a source of political discontent and frustration in Western democracies

   • Gary P. Freeman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 64

4. Institutional confidence and democratic consolidation in Latin America

   • Frederick C. Turner
   • John D. Martz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 84

5. Social capital in civic and stressful societies

   • Richard Rose
   • William Mishler
   • Christian Haerpfer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 111

6. Decline of the founding values of democracy and weakening of quasi-missionary institutions

   • Philippe Braud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 112 - 123

7. Democracy in Spain: Legitimacy, discontent, and disaffection

   • José Ramón Montero
   • Richard Gunther
   • Mariano Torcal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 124 - 160