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Distrust and Democracy: Political Distrust in Britain and America. By Hart Vivien. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xvii + 251. $19.95.)

This is a puzzling book. Vivien Hart addresses one of the most important phenomena of contemporary mass politics: the rise of significant, pervasive, and highly vocal discontent with the political process, with political leadership, and with policy outcomes in Great Britain and the United States. The puzzle begins with organization. At the outset Hart develops a sharp distinction between political distrust on one hand-the unfavorable but quite rational evaluation of politics by citizens judging reality in terms of the "mainstream" norms of a democratic political culture-and alienation, apparently identical in her view with anomie, on the other. The analysis thence proceeds to a detailed discussion of certain contemporary survey data, coupled with a blistering attack on Jack Dennis' gloomy conclusions about the rejection of existing politics by British youngsters. Then we abruptly turn to the book's core, two chapters on nineteenthcentury "radicals," Kansas Populists circa 1890 and the "rank-and-filers" of the Birmingham Liberal caucus in the mid-1880s.