Only 13percentt saw problems arising from failures of the clergy -- sexual abuse, decline of confidence in leadership, poor sermons and liturgy, and clerical authoritarianism.
Consider, for instance, the steep decline of confidence in America's public schools between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s, when very little substantive change actually took place inside classrooms.
The long-term threat to centre-left politics is the continuing decline of confidence in collective action, reflected in plummeting electoral participation among the young, the economically marginalised and the politically disaffected.
He also edited Emerging Coalitions in American Politics (1978) and The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind (1983; with William Schneider), a study of the decline of confidence of the American public in all major institutions, covering the period from the mid-1960s thethearly 1980s0s.
"At a time when risk and experiment is threatened by, amongst other things, a decline of confidence in the power of public investment in the arts, it's heartening to have our critics endorse the opinion of our audiences who snapped up every seat for these shows".
Gallup, who has been tracking confidence in banks for over thirty years now, notes the steady decline of confidence in their release, pointing out that 60percentt of Americans had at least "quite a lot" of confidence in banks in 1979.
This is something Tom Fletcher acknowledges when he talks of "the decline of trust and confidence in the political class".
The recommendations single out four main areas of abusive conduct that contributed to the "decline of public confidence in the integrity of the I.P.O.
One of the largely unreported stories of the last few months -- in the U.S. media, anyway -- is the precipitous decline of foreign confidence in American leadership and institutions.
