Past government abuse justifies wary distrust of any officials

Evidence

If the decline is real, it must be a decline in perceived trustworthiness. Of course, it might rather be a decline in faith or some stance that is labeled trust in the vernacular. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 732 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Governments work when citizens do not actively distrust them.; Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust; Declining trust in government reflects trustworthiness, not citizen psychology — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 732 (+2 more)

Related

• Declining trust in government stems from increased knowledge, not worsened performance (similarity 0.88)
• Citizens cannot trust government because they lack knowledge of its trustworthiness (similarity 0.88)
• Declining trust in government reflects trustworthiness, not citizen psychology (similarity 0.88)
• Declining governmental trust is a trustworthiness problem, not a trust problem (similarity 0.84)
• Past government abuse gives victims good reason for diffuse, unspecific distrust (similarity 0.84)
• Governments work when citizens do not actively distrust them. (similarity 0.83)
• Trust in government collapsed from 1966 to 1992 (similarity 0.83)
• Ungrounded faith in government benefits the powerful, not the faithful (similarity 0.82)
• Governments cannot satisfy the encapsulated-interest account of trust. (similarity 0.82)
• Distrust flows from assessing incentives, but trust in government rarely can (similarity 0.81)
• Mistrust of government is a healthy, intended feature of democratic design. (similarity 0.81)
• Distrust of government rests on logical inference about incentives, not induction (similarity 0.81)
• Rising information about government behavior drives declining trust (similarity 0.81)
• Government being trustworthy matters more than the public trusting it. (similarity 0.81)
• Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Distrust of government is easier to ground rationally than trust #corroborates (0.85)
• Declining trust in government reflects trustworthiness, not citizen psychology #contradicts (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 732