Where Agency Belongs: How Control, Trust, and Authority Broke—and How to Place Them Again

Modern society is experiencing a crisis of trust.

Institutions struggle to maintain legitimacy. Expertise is questioned. Authority is challenged. Individuals are asked to make increasingly complex decisions while feeling less certain about who should be responsible for them.

In Where Agency Belongs: How Control, Trust, and Authority Broke—and How to Place Them Again, Dr. Matthew Weinberg explores one of the most important questions of our time: where should agency reside in a complex society?

Drawing on philosophy, education, leadership, politics, history, and emerging technologies, Weinberg examines how modern institutions have gradually separated authority from responsibility, control from accountability, and expertise from trust. The result is a world in which many people feel empowered yet increasingly uncertain, connected yet disconnected, informed yet skeptical.

Rather than offering simple solutions, Where Agency Belongs provides a framework for understanding how agency functions across individuals, organizations, communities, and institutions. Through a multidisciplinary lens, Weinberg explores the conditions necessary for sound judgment, meaningful responsibility, effective leadership, and human flourishing.

Thought-provoking, accessible, and deeply relevant, this book is for leaders, educators, policymakers, professionals, and anyone seeking to better understand the challenges of trust, authority, and decision-making in the modern world.

At its core, Where Agency Belongs is an invitation to rethink not only how we govern institutions, but how we understand responsibility itself.

Publisher - Grammar & Stone Publishing

Language - English

Case Bound - PPC

Contributors

By author

Matthew Weinberg

Published Date - 2026-06-04

ISBN - 9798995380702

Dimensions - 19.7 x 13.2 x 1.7 cm

Page Count - 254