Ongoing relations make the trusted party’s own interests compel fulfilling trust

Evidence

The encapsulated-interest account backs up a step from a simpler expectations account to inquire into the reasons for the relevant expectations—in particular, the interests of the trusted in fulfilling the trust. The typical reason for the expectations is that the relations are ongoing in some important sense. There are two especially important contexts for trust: ongoing dyadic relationships and ongoing—or thick—group or societal relationships. The two classes are closely related, and both are subsumed in the encapsulated-interest account of trust. The first class is divisible into one-way and mutual trust relations, both of which are grounded in ongoing dyadic interactions. Such interactions pose incentives to the trusted that are of increasing severity. The sanction that compels the trusted party in a one-way trust game and both of the trusted parties in the mutual trust exchange interaction is withdrawal by the other party and therefore the loss of future benefits from the interaction. The sanction in thick relationships can go beyond such withdrawal to include shunning from the whole community of those who share in the thick relationships. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 112

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the encapsulated-interest account, distinguishing it from the simpler expectations account by its insistence on interrogating why the trusted’s own interests lead them to fulfill trust.
• XREF: This directly matches the reader’s stated purpose: it is the precise mechanism (withdrawal, shunning) that the doctor’s wife in Blindness enforces as the sole sighted guarantor of order — the sanctions that make trust feasible when monitoring fails. — connects to: Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1203; Bridge-builders and personal ties let coalitions adjust practices to partners’ legitimacy needs — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 244; Repeat players resolve disputes outside courts to preserve ongoing relationships — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1115
• DEEPTHINKING: The distinction between dyadic withdrawal sanctions and community-wide shunning as the two-tier incentive structure is the core analytical architecture the reader’s Integration project needs.