I am agreeing with you. It was one of the criteria the EIU uses for their index and I thought that was a very good criterion to include. And I recall that it was one of the main reasons the US got downgraded was because of falling trust in institutions.What leads you to hold that view? I ask because to me it seems trust in institutions is a feature of democracy, but I have no meaningful expertise.
I meant I thought it was an interesting criterion in an approving way! I know use of the word interesting can have weird nuance, but I meant it straightforwardly that I was interested in it!