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Why is this decline in trust happening? We certainly don’t believe that city and state governments have actually become less trustworthy over time, notwithstanding perceptions. Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University, has one notion that makes a lot of sense to us. He believes the constant barrage of information has contributed to the trend. “People don’t like politics, and now it is on the news 24/7. A generation or two ago, they didn’t see that,” he says. “Maybe government has always been doing things people wouldn’t like, but they didn’t see it back then and now they see it.”