A stranger thing? Sweden as the upside down of multilevel trust

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Gissur Ó. Erlingsson
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ABSTRACT As a rule, citizens appreciate local more than central government. This paper proposes a new research agenda for multilevel trust studies by arguing that it is premature to believe that citizen’s proximity to officials by definition trumps distance. As in country-comparative studies, close attention needs to be paid to institutional quality in analyses of multilevel trust. To put this argument to work, a closer investigation of Sweden is conducted. Tracking three indicators of trust, with time-series stretching over two decades, Sweden turns out to be a curious outlier from the international pattern: Swedes trust their local government less than the state. To make this observation intelligible – while simultaneously aiming to contribute to a more nuanced theoretical understanding of multilevel trust – the mix of three features is identified for bringing this circumstance about: (1) the principal role Swedish municipalities have successively been given in implementing core welfare state assignments; (2) that several of the municipalities’ assignments are susceptible to corruption; and (3) that the increase in municipal responsibilities has neither been accompanied with institutions that guarantee accountability of politicians nor the impartiality of local bureaucracies.
一件奇怪的事?瑞典是多级信托的翻版
摘要一般来说,市民更欣赏地方政府而非中央政府。本文提出了一个新的多级信任研究议程,认为认为公民与官员的接近程度胜过距离还为时过早。与国内比较研究一样,在多层次信任的分析中,需要密切关注制度质量。为了使这一论点发挥作用,我们对瑞典进行了更深入的调查。追踪三个信任指标,时间序列长达20多年,结果发现瑞典是国际模式中一个奇怪的异类:瑞典人对地方政府的信任低于对国家的信任。为了使这一观察结果易于理解,同时也有助于对多级信任进行更细致的理论理解,确定了造成这种情况的三个特征的组合:(1)瑞典市政当局在实施核心福利国家任务方面相继发挥了主要作用;(2) 几个市政当局的任务容易受到腐败的影响;(3)市政责任的增加既没有保证政治家问责制的机构,也没有保证地方官僚机构的公正性。
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期刊介绍: As an inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural journal dedicated to advancing a cross-level, context-rich, process-oriented, and practice-relevant journal, JTR provides a focal point for an open dialogue and debate between diverse researchers, thus enhancing the understanding of trust in general and trust-related management in particular, especially in its organizational and social context in the broadest sense. Through both theoretical development and empirical investigation, JTR seeks to open the "black-box" of trust in various contexts.
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