Legal-technized power shifts doubt from will to information

Evidence

The power-subject will now no longer speculate about the power-holder’s not being ready to use his supplies of power but will speculate on the power-holder’s not being informed about reasons for such action. This opens up other ‘rules of evasion’ which do not possess the tendency to unleash an open power struggle and which are thus more compatible with peace. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 678

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The shift from credibility-doubt to information-doubt is the ‘faceless’ logic par excellence — subjects stop testing the institution’s readiness and instead just track its informational state, deepening dependent deference.

Related

• Legal programming replaces credibility of will with calculability of information. (similarity 0.82)
• Power-law discrepancies force decisions while truth-logic ones do not. (similarity 0.81)
• Power risks shifted from temporal to factual, success and consensus dimensions (similarity 0.81)
• Once power-holders lack credibility, others test their resolve and escalate conflict (similarity 0.79)
• Rule of law makes power context-free and universally mobilizable (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power risks shifted from temporal to factual, success and consensus dimensions #expands (0.62) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 751