Trust, distrust, and history -- John Locke and trust in government -- Distrust of legal institutions -- Distrust of financial and commercial institutions -- Distrust of ecclesiastical institutions -- The crisis of institutional trust, 1970-2020
Summary
Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the 21st century, was an important theme of public discourse in Britain and colonial America during the early modern period. Demonstrating broad chronological and thematic range, the historian Brian P. Levack explains that trust in public institutions is more tenuous and difficult to restore once it has been betrayed than trust in one's family, friends, and neighbours, because the vast majority of the populace do not personally know the officials who run large national institutions. Institutional distrust shaped the political, legal, economic, and religious history of England, Scotland, and the British colonies in America
Notes
This edition also issued in print: 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience
Specialized
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 04, 2022)
