Lying in politics is both scandalous and common: the list of exposed political lies in recent decades is long, but loss of trust hardly seems to affect those whose everyday strategies include lying. This raises the question, what is the significance of trust for politics? The lecture by Professor Simone Dietz (Heinrich Heine University) argues that not all trust is conducive to democracy, but that certain types of trust can also endanger a democracy.
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