Trust in practical capacity outweighs trust in politicians’ good intentions

Evidence

Indeed, some amount of trust must be present in any complex economic system, and it is far from inconceivable that systems with a higher level of general trust could come about. It would be risky, however, to make higher levels of trust into a cornerstone of economic reform. We may hope that trust will come about as the by-product of a good economic system (and thus make the system even better), but one would be putting the cart before the horse were one to bank on trust, solidarity and altruism as the preconditions for reform. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2773 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ungrounded faith in government benefits the powerful, not the faithful; Trust in government is trust in capacity, unlike interpersonal trust; Effectiveness in office inevitably offends constituents who trusted the campaign (+1 more)

Related

• Political ideologies conflate trust in intentions with trust in competence (similarity 0.87)
• Trust should be a by-product of good institutions, not their precondition (similarity 0.86)
• Trust was the necessary condition of all political association (similarity 0.86)
• Treating trust as central to politics does not require naive credulity (similarity 0.85)
• Trust in government is trust in capacity, unlike interpersonal trust (similarity 0.84)
• The rationality of trust is ineliminable from any agency-based conception of politics (similarity 0.83)
• Government being trustworthy matters more than the public trusting it. (similarity 0.83)
• Institutions substitute for trust by securing trustworthiness coercively. (similarity 0.82)
• Trust matters most from a modest political view bounded by human capacities (similarity 0.82)
• Ungrounded faith in government benefits the powerful, not the faithful (similarity 0.82)
• Trust in large-scale government should focus on capacity, not intentions. (similarity 0.82)
• Trust as chosen policy is wiser than unreflective confidence in institutions (similarity 0.81)
• Cooperation is broader than trust and mostly grounded in institutions, not trust. (similarity 0.81)
• Trust is a small-scale phenomenon that institutions must replace to enable large-scale cooperation (similarity 0.81)
• One political view treats concentrated power and low motives as fixed givens. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Trust should be a by-product of good institutions, not their precondition #expands (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2773