Civic trust values depend on the amount of information each party possesses

Evidence

The virtuous republic is, of course, a society grounded on a set of shared and stable values. These values — trust in and concern for one’s fellow citizens, the triumph of public over private good - depend crucially upon the amount of information each party has. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1795

Categorization

• XREF: Fuses directly onto Luhmann’s familiarity and Hardin’s observability constraint — the informational substrate of trust the reader is building the synthesis around.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the sacrifice article’s caste/stratification thread insofar as information asymmetry underwrites exploitative orders.