Aug 2026· Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly· 0 citations· 59 references
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Environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) are key players in environmental governance, yet their connections with governments can shape public trust in complex ways. Challenging the assumption that closer nongovernmental organization (NGO)–government ties enhance legitimacy, this study examines how such ties affect trust, particularly under varying perceptions of governmental environmental performance. Through an online survey experiment in China, we find that government ties in the form of formal officials serving as board members generally weaken public trust in ENGOs, despite small effect sizes, with stronger effects when citizens perceive poor government environmental performance. The findings reveal a paradox: while citizens value ENGO independence, they also expect ENGOs to collaborate with capable governments. Overall, the study highlights the importance of state–NGO interactions in shaping public trust and underscores the need for ENGOs to balance access to state resources with organizational autonomy.
In democratic societies, citizens are both the end users and the indirect stewards of public policy, meaning that citizens’ ability to hold governments to account and express their voice is key for both citizens and policymakers. In addition, governments have a need for a baseline level of trust from their citizens to...
Abstract International organizations (IOs) monitor compliance with international norms but public criticism of member states remains discretionary. We argue that such criticism depends not only on mandates or political incentives, but on whether IOs can access information they deem credible. This credibility is sociall...
Florencia Montal, G. Pauselli, María-José Urzúa· British Journal of Political...· 0 citations
: The article discusses the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to establish and maintain transparency, accountability, and engage the public in small-loan projects in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The study, which is based on the Systems Theory of Governance, Principal-Agent Theory, and Diffusion of In...
R. Smail· Journal of Anbar University...· 0 citations
Growing reliance on social media for public information raises concerns about declining trust and ineffective digital Government-to-Citizen (G2C) communication. This study examines the decline of public trust in government amid the growing use of social media as a primary source of public information. The research aims...
This study aims to examine how public administrations perceive and govern collaboration with social-media influencers (SMIs), conceptualizing these partnerships as public values trade-offs between platform logics and administrative norms.
Drawing on 19 semistructured interviews with social-media managers in...
R. Zumofen, Vincent Mabillard· Transforming Government: Peo...· 0 citations
Political trust as a conditional relationship between citizens and institutions is essential for the stability of political systems. Although the EU-Institutions are extending increasingly their competences (Tallberg, 2002), trust in them is mostly determined by national trust (Harteveld et al., 2013). Two theories, ho...
Johannes Bauer· Refubium (Universitätsbiblio...· 0 citations
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