Even honest guardians may not actually deliver the protection principals assume.

Evidence

Even where trustees of trust ignore these illicit opportunities-as most undoubtedly do-the question remains whether the protections some of them guarantee and most principals assume exist can be attained. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 122

Categorization

• QUESTION: The punchline is that ‘even the honest ones fail,’ which poses the question of whether trust in institutions is fundamentally misplaced rather than occasionally betrayed.
• XREF: connects to: Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 112; Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 127

Related

• Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them. (similarity 0.87)
• The institutions that police trust are themselves trustees subject to the same agency problems. (similarity 0.86)
• Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight (similarity 0.86)
• Mechanisms for controlling impersonal trust themselves create new opportunities for abuse (similarity 0.85)
• Escalating trust guardianship distorts the original agency purpose (similarity 0.84)
• Institutional trust guardians offer advance protection against future agent misconduct. (similarity 0.82)
• Trust institutions vary dramatically in the guardianship they receive (similarity 0.82)
• Third-party trust guardians create new opportunities for exploitation. (similarity 0.80)
• Guardians of trust are themselves wide open to bribery and cooptation. (similarity 0.80)
• The very mechanisms that enable trust also enable its abuse. (similarity 0.80)
• Guardians’ reliability can decay over time, defeating static trust guarantees (similarity 0.79)
• Trust constraint-setting trades false alarms against missed betrayals. (similarity 0.79)
• Principals collectivize trust oversight to gain leverage through embedded ties. (similarity 0.79)
• Trust control is a specialized occupation that sidelines ordinary actors (similarity 0.79)
• Trusted agents face a dense lattice of institutional surveillance. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them. #expands (0.88) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 112
• Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight #expands (0.80) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 127