Escalating trust guardianship distorts the original agency purpose

Evidence

With each cyclical revolution of nth-order trust relationships and their associated guardians, of new strains of deviance and new procedural cures, one gets the unsettling feeling that the original agency agenda has become distorted along the way. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 128

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The procedural cure progressively displacing the substantive goal is a genuinely paradigm-level insight about institutions, worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: Trust institutions vary dramatically in the guardianship they receive — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 151; The institutions that police trust are themselves trustees subject to the same agency problems. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 111; Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 127 (+2 more)

Related

• The institutions that police trust are themselves trustees subject to the same agency problems. (similarity 0.90)
• Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight (similarity 0.87)
• Institutional trust guardians offer advance protection against future agent misconduct. (similarity 0.86)
• Trust institutions vary dramatically in the guardianship they receive (similarity 0.86)
• Mechanisms for controlling impersonal trust themselves create new opportunities for abuse (similarity 0.86)
• Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them. (similarity 0.85)
• Even honest guardians may not actually deliver the protection principals assume. (similarity 0.84)
• Controlling trust creates new opportunities for abuse in an inflationary spiral. (similarity 0.82)
• The very mechanisms that enable trust also enable its abuse. (similarity 0.82)
• The same features enabling trust also enable agent abuse. (similarity 0.82)
• Guardians’ reliability can decay over time, defeating static trust guarantees (similarity 0.81)
• Third-party trust guardians create new opportunities for exploitation. (similarity 0.81)
• Trusted agents face a dense lattice of institutional surveillance. (similarity 0.80)
• Controlling trust institutions increases dissatisfaction with their offerings. (similarity 0.80)
• Trust guardians purposefully fuse competing theories of social action (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them. #expands (0.92) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 112
• Guardians’ reliability can decay over time, defeating static trust guarantees #expands (0.88) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 126