Political parties and armies can create trust by creating distrust

Evidence

If this in turn is right, it would seem to follow that in some conditions some ‘aristocracies’ — a political party, for instance, or an army — can create trust after all, and can do so by creating distrust. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1670

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the doctor’s wife’s coercive stewardship in Saramago — order built on controlled distrust of the sighted herd.