1. Department of Politics, Governance and Economics, American University, Washington, DC, United States
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Trust is one of those things people rarely think about until it disappears. You don’t think about it when you transfer money through a banking app, upload a document to the cloud, or share your personal information with a company online. You assume the systems behind those actions are secure
Why do some citizens trust their governments while others do not? In sub-Saharan Africa, where formal accountability mechanisms are often limited and the state is most visibly present through the roads it builds, the schools it runs, and the clinics it staffs, the answer may lie closer to home than the ballot box. When the…
