Trust requires knowing the other’s incentives to honor it

Evidence

Note the nature of the beliefs one must have about another to trust that other. In the encapsulated-interest account, one must know something about the incentives the other has to fulfill the trust (and something about their understanding of those interests, as well). — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 530

Categorization

• DEFINE: Restates the encapsulated-interest account: trusting someone means knowing their incentives plus their own understanding of those interests.
• XREF: Pairs directly with the reader’s claim that trust requires observable constraints—the wife can monitor the blind, so hers is the only trust that survives. — connects to: Mutual trust predates and is prerequisite for civic virtue. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 33; Voluntary acts of personal trust give the trusted party an incentive to be trustworthy — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1203