Modern statehood displaced kin-based security with chains of dyadic patronage

Evidence

A person’s safety no longer lies in the strength of his kin group, but rather in having a friend at the nearest district office, who in turn has a friend at the provincial capital, who has a friend at the national capital. So, a sort of dyadic unsymmetrical system of patronage relations takes over in the political sphere. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2044

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s Hardin frame: trust degrades to personal brokerage networks when formal monitoring is weak, exactly the familiar/observability gap logic.