In this article, I use the social science scholarship on trust to develop a new model for understanding social rights fulfilment in contemporary social democracies. Drawing on—and applying to the social rights context—an idea from that scholarship that I call the ‘network conception of trust’, I argue that we may fairly conceive of social rights fulfilment in such democracies as a network of interconnected and interdependent trust-based relationships between citizens, state actors and non-state actors. From this network model, it follows that for any relationship involved in social rights fulfilment (like that between citizens and the elected branches of government), we must understand trust as a product of that relationship’s social context. And given the recognised value of citizens’ trust in government to contemporary democracies, I suggest that this network model has significant implications for social rights law.

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实现社会权利的信任网络模型

在这篇文章中，我利用关于信任的社会科学奖学金来开发一种新的模型来理解当代社会民主国家的社会权利实现。借鉴——并应用于社会权利背景——我称之为“信任的网络概念”的学术思想，我认为我们可以公平地将这种民主国家中的社会权利实现设想为一个相互关联和相互依赖的信任网络——基于公民、国家行为者和非国家行为者之间的关系。From this network model, it follows that for any relationship involved in social rights fulfilment (like that between citizens and the elected branches of government), we must understand trust as a product of that relationship's social context. 考虑到公民对政府的信任对当代民主国家的认可价值，