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All four claims make a certain level of trust a necessary condition for democracy. They imply that a significant decline in trust threatens democracy.Allfourimplythatauthoritarianandpatronage-basedregimes can survive with much lower levels of trust than democracies.
— Feb 24, 2022 11:35AM
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a weak state suffers from significant obstacles to continued democratization beyond some threshold. Those obstacles exist because a weak state fails to suppress or subordinate autonomous power centers, allows citizens to insulate their trust networks from public politics, and tolerates or even encourages the insertion of categorical inequalities into public politics.
— Feb 24, 2022 12:05PM
