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"Compelling and certainly timely... a challenging, relevant, and thoughtful read."
— Kirkus Reviews
What if conspiracy belief isn't irrational — but a rational response to institutions that no longer explain themselves? Legitimate Distrust challenges the assumption that conspiracy theories are simply cognitive failures or emotional overreactions. Sebastian Saviano reframes them as logical adaptations to institutional environments marked by opacity, inconsistency, and consequence without accountability. When the social contract erodes, when truth is managed rather than explained, and when power operates without accountability, suspicion isn't paranoia. It is rational.
Drawing on political theory, sociology, history, philosophy, and psychology, the book is both diagnostic and urgent — tracing how distrust forms, spreads, and hardens, and what institutions must do to rebuild credibility.
As Book Two of The Collapse of Trust series, it builds on The Allegiance Paradox — moving from questions of citizenship and betrayal to a deeper inquiry into the epistemology of mistrust and what its proliferation reveals about the fractures beneath civic life.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Something doesn't add up.Official explanations feel thin. Institutions seem to answer to no one. The gap between what people are told and what they observe keeps widening. In such conditions, suspicion begins to feel not only understandable, but necessary.In Legitimate Distrust, Sebastian Saviano argues that conspiracy belief is rarely the root problem. It is more often a response to environments in which authority no longer explains itself clearly, aligns power with accountability, or remains answerable for its failures. When institutions become opaque, inconsistent, or insulated from consequence, distrust is not an anomaly-it is a rational adaptation.Drawing on political theory, institutional analysis, and contemporary case patterns, Saviano develops a framework for distinguishing between justified skepticism and corrosive paranoia. He shows how mistrust forms, how it evolves, and how it is shaped by institutional behavior across different political and informational environments.Neither a defense of conspiracism nor an indictment of democratic governance, Legitimate Distrust examines what trust actually requires-and what it would take to sustain legitimacy in an age where belief can no longer be assumed. In Legitimate Distrust, Sebastian Saviano argues that conspiracy belief is not the root problem but a response to opacity, inconsistency, and weak accountability. The book examines how mistrust forms-and what trust requires. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798999233653
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