TY - JOUR TI - Institutional trust. Rainmaking effect and institutionalization of distrust? AU - Sobiech, Robert TI - Institutional trust. Rainmaking effect and institutionalization of distrust? AB - The paper presents selected positions emerging in debate over the causes and effects of trust in institutions that has been going on for several decades. One of the key issues is the question of the balance between trust, ne-cessary for the efficient functioning of the democratic system, including public institutions, and the distrust of citizens, necessary for their social control. The above question becomes particularly important in a situation of low public trust in government and growing popularity of radical social and political movements. According to many researchers, the failure of the existing forms of institutionalization of distrust poses a significant threat to the current social and political order. This Article is made in Open Access, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.pl   VL - 2017 IS - 8/2017 PY - 2018 SN - 2082-7806 C1 - 2543-408X SP - 61 EP - 86 DO - 10.4467/2543408XZOP.17.003.9262 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zoon-politikon/article/zaufanie-do-wladz-publicznych-efekt-zaklinania-deszczu-a-instytucjonalizacja-nieufnosci KW - trust KW - distrust KW - democracy KW - institutional trust KW - trust in government KW - institutionali-zation of distrust