Trust and rule

Natural Resources in a Planetary Perspective

“…For documented past examples, see for China: Zhang et al (2007), for Easter Island: Bahn and Flenley (1992), but also more general considerations: Ehrlich (1968), Hardin (1968), Meadows et al (1972Meadows et al ( , 1992Meadows et al ( , 2004, Tainter (1988Tainter ( , 1995Tainter ( , 1996, Ehrlich and Ehrlich (2013), Diamond (1997Diamond ( , 2005, Leslie (1998), Ash (2002), Haraldsson and Sverdrup (2004), Tilly (2003Tilly ( , 2007, Klein (2007), Lövin (2007), Greer (2008), Sachs (2008), Brown (2009b), Rockström et al (2009), Fukuyama (2011. We conclude that lack of resources is a potentially dangerous situation globally.…”

Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

“…First, democratic rule has been argued to enhance the protection of minority rights, which, in turn, may stimulate trust among people with diverse backgrounds (e.g., Tilly, 2004). As such, a country's democratic nature (DEMO; i.e.…”

New Rebels in Postconflict Settings: The Principal–Agent Dilemma of Peacebuilding

“…A crucial aspect of successful peacebuilding after civil war is to reintegrate the citizens who fought against the government in wartime into the nation's peacetime society. To do this, exrebels must begin to place greater trust in public institutions than in the nonstate networks they relied on during the conflict (Tilly 2005). Former members of the rebel constituency have fewer previous experiences (with perhaps no positive ones) of interacting with the state, yet as noted above, they maintain the option of rejecting this process due to their welldeveloped wartime skills for armed resistance against perceived "bad governance" (Walter 2015).…”

“…However, while one part of postcivil conflict peacebuilding aims to undermine the rebel group and its related structures, the other part seeks to involve former combatants in establishing a new state-citizen contract. Tilly (2005) interprets these relations as a process of state formation in which governing institutions take an expanding role in citizens' trust networks, and ideally overtake systems and structures that are tied to the former warring organization. In Trust and Rule, Tilly (2005, 44) asserts that trust networks are "named, bounded, internally communicating sets of relations entailing mutual obligations" which (if they include state institutions) provide the "contingent consent" that makes citizens comply with costly demands made by government and thus facilitate improved institutional performance (Levi 1997).…”