Gatekeeping mechanisms like licensing and peer review make trustees reproduce themselves in choosing successors.
Evidence
The designation of successors by the original charismatic leader, a second strategy described by Weber, represents an important gatekeeping mechanism regulating trustee roles. Selection systems based on recommendation, nomination, or reference; professional licensing, certification, and accreditation; and peer review ask trustees to reproduce themselves on the basis of either personal acquaintance with candidates for positions of trust or the trustees’ ability to recognize and assess necessary qualities in their successors. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 84
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the ‘Grafting & Growth’ article’s use of reproduction metaphors, and to broader work on professional self-regulation and credentialism (Larson, Abbott). — connects to: Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 127; Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 112; Fraudsters exploit trust in overseers by forging faux regulators — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 125
- SEED: A possible essay angle on how credentialism and peer review amount to self-reproduction of elite professions, and how that self-selection reproduces class, race, and gender compositions of trust holders.
Related
- Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight (similarity 0.81)
- Mechanisms for controlling impersonal trust themselves create new opportunities for abuse (similarity 0.79)
- Guardians of trust are themselves wide open to bribery and cooptation. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Guardians of trust are themselves trustees requiring ever-higher-order oversight
#expands(0.80) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 127 - Guardians of trust are themselves positioned to abuse the trust placed in them.
#complicates(0.78) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 112 - Fraudsters exploit trust in overseers by forging faux regulators
#exemplifies(0.75) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 125