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The larger context of Watt's study is constituted by (1) the number of recent writings on authority; and (2) the widespread belief that authority is in difficulties, in crisis, in decline. Suffusing this larger context is an egalitarian sentiment that renders all relationships of authority, which are necessarily unequal, suspect.

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