Hardin R. Trust and Trustworthiness

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002. — 256 p. — (Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust) — ISBN10: 0871543427; ISBN13: 978-0871543424.Reworking eight essays that have appeared elsewhere, Hardin (politics, New York U. and political science, Stanford U.) explores a particular class of trust as encapsulated interest, in which the truster's expectations of the trusted's behavior depend on assessment of certain motivations of the trusted. Among the most common motivations, he finds, is that the trusted wants the relationship to continue.TrustTrust as Encapsulated Interest
Elements of Trust as Encapsulated Interest
Trust as a Three-Part Relation
Trust and Cooperation
Acting on Trust as Involving Risk
The Rationality of Trust
One-Way Trust
Mutual Trust
Thick Relationships
From Interests to Well-being
Concluding RemarksTrustworthinessTrust and Trustworthiness
Dispositions of Trustworthiness
Bald Dispositions
Moral Dispositions for Trustworthiness
Moral Rules
Consequences
External Motivations for Trustworthiness
Social Constraints
Institutional Constraints
Norrns of Trustworthiness
Concluding RemarksConceptions and MisconceptionsConceptual Confusions
Trust as Reductive Versus Non-Reductive
Trust as Behavioral Versus Cognitive
Trust as a Two-Part Relation: Open-Ended Trust
Trust as a Two-Part Relation: Generalized or Social Trust
Promise Keeping and Trust
Trusting and Entrusting
Other Visions of Trust
Trust as Not Knowledge
Trust as Noncognitive
Trust as Ungrounded Faith
Trust as Scant Expectations
Trust as Moral
Trust as Dependent on Characteristics of the Trusted
Instant Trust
Trust as a Good
Trustworthiness as a Commodity
Trustworthiness as Social Capital
Motivations and Trustworthiness
Concluding RemarksDistrustAsymmetries Between Trust and Distrust
Uncertainty and Distrust
Pervasive Distrust
Subsistence Communities
Power and Distrust
Social Uses of Distrust
Distrust and Liberal Goverrunent
Cooperation Without Trustworthiness
Concluding RemarksThe Epistemology of TrustStreet-Level Epistemology
The Learned Capacity to Trust
Low and High Capacity for Trust
Modeling Learned Capacity to Trust
Shortcomings of the Model
Further Implications of the Learned Capacity to Trust
The Outsider
Sanctions and Trust
Concluding RemarksManaging TrustDevelopmental Accounts of Trust
Psychological Development
Genetic Evolutionary Development
Social Evolutionary Development
Initiation of Trust Relations
Reputational Incentives
Intermediaries in Trust
Falling in Love
Shared Interests
Maintenance of Trust Through Feedback
Concluding RemarksTrust and GovernmentGovernmental Trustworthiness
Citizen Trust of Government
Quasi Trust
Declining Trust in Government
Distrust in Government
Endemic Distrust
Concluding RemarksTrust and SocietyCooperation in Dyads
Cooperation in Groups
Collective Action
Norms of Cooperativeness
Cooperation in the Economy
Cooperation in Institutional Settings
Trust and Social Structure
Concluding RemarksAppendix: Survey Questions on Trust