Sustained terror threats corrode public openness and trust across a society

Evidence

Terrorism and reactions to it can also effect broad and diffuse social changes in the direction of decreased openness and trust. Officials in both czarist Russia and contemporary Italy hesitated to appear in public. Businessmen travel with bodyguards in bullet-proof limousines, altering their route for each journey. Diplomats live unostentatiously. The White House is ringed with concrete barriers. The long-term psychological effects of suspiciousness, isolation, and mistrust are largely unknown; they are surely destructive of political community. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4173

Categorization

• XREF: The White House concrete barriers echo contemporary security-bureaucratization critiques in surveillance and public-space literature.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4173