Political trust theory has been displaced by the concept of support

Evidence

It is not easy to say how far trust is necessary for this process of powersupported simplification, and where such trust is to be placed. So it is not surprising that the old theme of political trust, which used to play such a large role, particularly in the period after the end of the religious civil wars, has virtually disappeared from contemporary political theory. Its place as a conceptual category is taken, in recent theorizing about the political system, by ‘support’. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 221

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s Luhmann-Giddens-Ishiguro thesis: the shift from political trust to ‘support’ parallels Stevens’s institutional loyalty becoming a depersonalized ‘support’ rather than interpersonal trust, and connects to Giddens’s faceless commitments.
• QUESTION: What exactly distinguishes Luhmann’s ‘trust’ from mainstream political science ‘support’ (e.g., Easton’s diffuse support) — worth pinning down for a comparative argument.