Trust was the necessary condition of all political association

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 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enforced sanctions under governments underwrite all ordinary trust; Political legitimacy is an ongoing project of constructing and repairing trust; Trust should be a by-product of good institutions, not their precondition — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2773 (+5 more)

Related

• Trust should be a by-product of good institutions, not their precondition (similarity 0.87)
• Political legitimacy is an ongoing project of constructing and repairing trust (similarity 0.86)
• Trust in practical capacity outweighs trust in politicians’ good intentions (similarity 0.86)
• Institutions enabling safe cooperation must precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust (similarity 0.85)
• Cooperation is broader than trust and mostly grounded in institutions, not trust. (similarity 0.85)
• Institutions substitute for trust by securing trustworthiness coercively. (similarity 0.84)
• Trust is a small-scale phenomenon that institutions must replace to enable large-scale cooperation (similarity 0.84)
• The rationality of trust is ineliminable from any agency-based conception of politics (similarity 0.82)
• Political parties and armies can create trust by creating distrust (similarity 0.82)
• Social relations are sufficient but not necessary conditions for trust in economic life. (similarity 0.82)
• Treating trust as central to politics does not require naive credulity (similarity 0.81)
• Virtuous cycles of trust and confidence can be reinforced by stable institutions. (similarity 0.81)
• Political trust is a realistic assessment of irreversible division of labour, not psychic submission (similarity 0.81)
• Trust alone cannot explain modern social order. (similarity 0.80)
• Highly cooperative societies can sustain mutual trust without religion. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Trust should be a by-product of good institutions, not their precondition #contradicts (0.90) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2773
• Political legitimacy is an ongoing project of constructing and repairing trust #expands (0.85)
• Institutions enabling safe cooperation must precede trustworthiness, which precedes trust #contradicts (0.80)
• Trust is a small-scale phenomenon that institutions must replace to enable large-scale cooperation #contradicts (0.75)
• Legitimate political authority rests on an exchange of protection for obedience. #complicates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 558