A republic’s stability rests on assurance that all will respect shared rules.

Evidence

For Lovett, civic minded dispositions can be reducible to the willingness to respect the rules of the game, also highlighted by the fact that he considers the establishment of a republic an assurance game: “there are many configurations of basic institutional structures that might serve as stable focal points for cooperation, provided only that everyone has a reasonable assurance everyone else is ready to play by the same set of rules” (224). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 18

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘assurance game’ framing of regime stability connects to game-theoretic treatments of cooperation (e.g., Schelling focal points) and to compliance literature. — connects to: Security rests upon a balance of trust and acceptable risk. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 92; Societies built on mutual distrust can stabilize into enduring structures. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 92; Cross-cutting and contradictory loyalties helped stabilize the new republic — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 432 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 18

Broader Connections

• Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust #expands (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182
• Administrative autonomy and rule-following boost state legitimacy and stability #expands (0.80) — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 111
• Freedom from domination rests on normative respect, not fear of sanctions. #expands (0.80)
• Institutionalized government stabilizes citizens’ inductive expectations, not strong trust #complicates (0.78) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 720
• Security rests upon a balance of trust and acceptable risk. #complicates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 92
• Societies built on mutual distrust can stabilize into enduring structures. #complicates (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 92
• Stable open government with countervailing institutions is needed to stimulate trustworthiness #expands (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 519
• An institution’s viability rests on the aggregate reputation of its members. #expands (0.72) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 205
• The barons proposed a system of checks and balances against tyranny. #exemplifies (0.72) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 394
• Cross-cutting and contradictory loyalties helped stabilize the new republic #complicates (0.70) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 432
• Trust was the necessary condition of all political association #qualifies (0.70)