Second, we can subject ourselves to external inducements. We can try to arrange matters so that our interests will be aligned with our commitment when the time for acting on that commitment comes. We can do this by setting up ad hoc personal devices or by relying on societal and institutional devices. An individual cannot do much about the availability of societal and institutional arrangements—they either exist or they do not. But if they do, I can hope and often even contrive that they will help me rely on you. Legal and other institutional constraints can give us strong incentives to be trustworthy.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 167