Citizens cannot trust government because they lack knowledge of its trustworthiness

Evidence

If the decline is real, it must be a decline in perceived trustworthiness. Of course, it might rather be a decline in faith or some stance that is labeled trust in the vernacular. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 732 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice; Governments cannot satisfy the encapsulated-interest account of trust.; Governments work when citizens do not actively distrust them. (+8 more)

Related

• Declining trust in government stems from increased knowledge, not worsened performance (similarity 0.93)
• Declining trust in government reflects trustworthiness, not citizen psychology (similarity 0.91)
• Governments cannot satisfy the encapsulated-interest account of trust. (similarity 0.88)
• Past government abuse justifies wary distrust of any officials (similarity 0.88)
• Declining governmental trust is a trustworthiness problem, not a trust problem (similarity 0.88)
• Government being trustworthy matters more than the public trusting it. (similarity 0.86)
• Ungrounded faith in government benefits the powerful, not the faithful (similarity 0.84)
• Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust (similarity 0.84)
• Trust in government collapsed from 1966 to 1992 (similarity 0.84)
• Governments work when citizens do not actively distrust them. (similarity 0.83)
• Trusting a government is not analogous to trusting another person. (similarity 0.83)
• Trust requires presumptive knowledge that most citizens lack about officials. (similarity 0.83)
• Trust in government is really quasi-trust or confidence, not trust (similarity 0.83)
• Most citizens hold inductive expectations about government rather than grounded trust (similarity 0.83)
• Distrust flows from assessing incentives, but trust in government rarely can (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Declining trust in government reflects trustworthiness, not citizen psychology #complicates (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 732
• Excess knowledge that trust is being built can itself collapse it into distrust #contradicts (0.80)
• Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust #contradicts (0.75)