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Replication Data for: Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach

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Title Replication Data for: Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ATDFQN
 
Creator Liu, Yixin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Trust in government has attracted much attention as an important social outcome, but we know little about its effects on citizen-state interactions. In this study, I posit that trust in government affects citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance. To overcome the endogeneity problem of measuring trust in traditional surveys, I proposed an alternative design that uses randomly assigned public integrity information as the instrument of trust in government. In two online experiments, I test the effect of trust further on several collaborative governance outcomes. The results indicate that citizens have strong preferences on public-citizen-partnership, regardless the variations of trust in government. Moreover, trust in government has nonlinear effects on perceived public-private partnership and willingness to coproduce. These findings provide new opportunities to study trust in government and offer implications to further develop collaborative governance theory.
 
Subject Social Sciences
public trust
collaborative governance
coproduction
instrumental variable
 
Contributor Liu, Yixin