Anarchy can generate social cohesion which effective government destroys

Evidence

There is one point at which the conventional Hobbesian and the Ibn Khaldunian visions of the basis of social order are diametrically opposed. On the whole, the advantage lies with Ibn Khaldun. … The Hobbesian problem arises from the assumption that anarchy, absence of enforcement, leads to distrust and social disintegration. We are all familiar with the deductive model which sustains and re-enforces that argument, but there is a certain amount of interesting empirical evidence which points the other way. The paradox is: it is precisely anarchy which engenders trust or, if you want to use another name, which engenders social cohesion. It is effective government which destroys trust. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1908

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the Hobbesian framing central to the reader’s Hardin analysis; effective government (not anarchy) destroys trust parallels how the doctor’s wife’s sole sight becomes the only constraint once state order fails. — connects to: Every consensus stabilizes irreducible chaos, and permanent stability would end politics — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 586
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what empirical evidence does Gellner cite that anarchy engenders cohesion, and how does he reconcile this with the Neapolitan opposite case earlier in the volume?