Institutions designed on incentive grounds can support encapsulated-interest trust

Evidence

A signal advantage of trust as encapsulated interest is that it can be supported by institutions whose motivations are similarly grounded in incentives, which can be fairly straightforwardly understood, designed, and implemented. Modern industrial societies have proved to be adept at designing institutions on such bases. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 520

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the integration: Hardin’s institutional-design claim is the answer to why Saramago’s society degrades — no stable government or countervailing institution survives the blindness, so encapsulated-interest trust has no scaffolding, confirming that trust needs institutions not just observability. — connects to: Well-designed republican institutions can generate norms of policy-making through games of acceptability. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 19