Big, ironic lesson I learned from Fukuyama's work: if you don't trust the govt, you end up with a de facto bigger, less effective govt...
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not quite... more a case of what FF calls a vetocracy
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Aha, seems to back up the idea of trust as a driver of efficiency. Some very interesting game theoretic effects there.
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yup US is a big outlier in lack of trust so there's a maze of multilevel checks, balances, overlapping jurisdiction, litigation

