Politicians and Political Cynicism More or Less?

The assumption that there is an increasing level of cynicism about political systems and distrust of politicians has become a truism in discourse about politics. So accepted have both the concept and the term ‘political cynicism ’ become that any explicit agreement on what the term means and what the concept includes have come to seem unnecessary. It is simply widely accepted by both politicians and political observers (Putnam, Pharr and Dalton 2000; Young 2000; Burchell an