Mutual trust predates and is prerequisite for civic virtue.
Evidence
Another reason is that, even if, as discussed earlier, a minimalist civic virtue account does not need “virtuous” citizens in a thick understanding of the word, the presence of social capital might, as a byproduct, lead to the emergence of such individuals. Pettit acknowledges that social capital has to predate a thicker understanding of civic virtue: “if there is not a healthy level of civil life in a society, if there is not a sustained pattern of mutual trust, then people do not develop a natural identification with others and a spontaneous commitment to what will advance the interests they share [but instead] they lose the capacity for civility” (1997, 262). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 33
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes social-capital and civil-society debates (Putnam, Tocqueville) about trust as precursor rather than product of good institutions. — connects to: Civic virtue and mutual personal trust are the same achievement — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1298; Institutions enabling safe cooperation must precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust; Trust enables action before another party’s cooperation is assured. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 20 (+9 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 33
Related
- Civic virtue and mutual personal trust are the same achievement (similarity 0.87)
- Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy (similarity 0.82)
- Legitimacy, built through contestatory democracy, generates civic virtue. (similarity 0.82)
- Civic virtue grows through identification with the polity, offering new identities (similarity 0.82)
- Freedom requires civic trust, not solitary defensive walls (similarity 0.81)
- Social trust is an outcome and byproduct of social capital (similarity 0.80)
- Social trust and civic engagement co-vary across societies as one underlying factor. (similarity 0.80)
- Institutional vigilance operates alongside rather than against interpersonal trust (similarity 0.80)
- Responsive institutions require citizens virtuous enough to press new claims (similarity 0.80)
- Civic virtue rests on group identification and satisfying identities, not just self-discipline (similarity 0.79)
- Trust emerges as a result of cooperation rather than an element of social capital. (similarity 0.79)
- Virtue only produces social benefit when embedded in reciprocal networks (similarity 0.78)
- Trust requires knowing the other’s incentives to honor it (similarity 0.78)
- Institutional safeguards precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Trust was the necessary condition of all political association
#corroborates(0.85) - Institutions enabling safe cooperation must precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust
#qualifies(0.80) - Institutional safeguards precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust
#contradicts(0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 849 - Civic virtue grows through identification with the polity, offering new identities
#expands(0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1297 - Civic virtue and mutual personal trust are the same achievement
#qualifies(0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1298 - Trust enables action before another party’s cooperation is assured.
#expands(0.75) — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 20 - Trust functions as social capital enabling collective purposes.
#expands(0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 399 - Trust presupposes a structured environment supplied by the existence of other systems.
#qualifies(0.75) - Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy
#expands(0.72) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1203 - Personal trust forms sequentially through a process of mutual selection.
#expands(0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 194 - Trust requires knowing the other’s incentives to honor it
#expands(0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 530