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Public Trust

Public Trust is a normative concept in political and ethical theory designating the collective confidence and reliance that citizens place in public institutions and officials to act in the common interest, particularly through transparent, accountable, and morally responsible governance during ordinary and crisis conditions, including legislative decision-making and pandemic response.

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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

Peter A. Schneider, Francis Fukuyama · Journal of Marketing · 1996 · 10.7K citations

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Trust and commitment in the United States and Japan

Toshio Yamagishi, Midori Yamagishi · Motivation and Emotion · 1994 · 2.4K citations

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Measuring Trust*

Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson, José Scheinkman et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2000 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Political Trust and Trustworthiness

Margaret Levi, Laura Stoker · Annual Review of Political Science · 2000 · 2.1K citations

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Perceived Risk, Trust, and Democracy

Paul Slovic · Risk Analysis · 1993 · 1.9K citations

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Authors

5.2K

  1. SV
    Steven Van de Walle

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    16 publications · 2K citations

    15

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  2. SG
    Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    13 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. GB
    Geert Bouckaert

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    14 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. BB
    Ben Bradford

    University College London, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. GA
    Gregory A. Porumbescu

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    9 publications · 1.1K citations

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Institutions

1.9K

  1. University of Gothenburg

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    26 h-index

    71 publications

    5.5K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    49 publications

    4.1K citations

  3. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    24 h-index

    45 publications

    4.5K citations

  4. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    23 h-index

    41 publications

    4.1K citations

  5. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    19 h-index

    24 publications

    4.2K citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    19 h-index

    33 publications

    9.8K citations

  7. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    18 h-index

    29 publications

    2K citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    18 h-index

    25 publications

    1.2K citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 81 publications · 2.5K citations

    28

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  2. Public Administration Review

    PAR · 25 publications · 5.2K citations

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  3. Risk Analysis

    24 publications · 5.5K citations

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  4. Social Science & Medicine

    23 publications · 3.7K citations

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  5. International Review of Administrative Sciences

    21 publications · 3.1K citations

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