What is Reddit's opinion of Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order?

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> It is easy to destroy order and hard to maintain it.

Yup. I really wish people would think more about the notion of social capital when they try to drive change. I think that a lot of what's going on in Russia and along its borders has lot to do with previous tactics used in the area and their lingering effects. e.g. a Hungarian report on social capital:

> Nichols (1996) also argues that we cannot use political culture alone to judge the level of democracy. He suggests that democracy should be defined as the numerous and dense horizontal networks of voluntary engagement (p.636). He argues that today Russians see civil society organizations as unnecessary if not dangerous due to their past experiences with the forced associatedness imposed by the state.

Or Misztal's "Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order" on the former Soviet bloc countries (p. 195):

> The experience in these societies of fear, suspicion, and intolerance - integral to all totalitarian societies - contributed to the low level of trust among their people in comparison with Western countries. The ruling communist parties dismantled the traditional value-generating institutions disintegrated families and undermined many previous values, such as responsibility, freedom, and autonomy. Their attempts to replace these norms with new values failed because 'the almost total inefficiency of their economic system ruined the working morale and generated nation-wide negligence and irresponsibility; because their authoritarian social and political system excluded people from public life and created an alienated, individualistic, consumption-oriented, privatizing society' (Hankiss 1990: 207). The centralized power of the party-state undermined a norm of cooperation by eliminating from the public life discourse, negotiation and respect for anything other than official positions."

Thinking specifically of the instability of Ukraine - Transparency International has been ranking it for some time as the most corrupt country in Europe along with a pretty low worldwide ranking. To me it's somewhat unsurprising that