01522pab a2200169 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Vigoda, Eran Managerial quality, administrative performance and trust governance: can we point to causality? 2003 p.12-25. Sep The relationship between managerial quality, administrative performance and citizens' trust in government and in public administration systems is a field of study that so far has not received adequate scholarly attention. This article explores some interrelationships between these variables and empirically tests between causality, if it exists between performance and trust. Applying a technique of structural equation modelling (SEM) with LISREL 8.3 the study examined a sample of 345 Israeli citizens and compared three alternative models. The second model that showed a quality - performance - trust relationship fitted the data best. However, the third model also had some advantages worthy of elaboration. Thus, we concluded that administrative performance may be treated as a precondition to trust in governance rather than trust serving as the precondition to performance. The article ends with further discussion of the findings and their meaning in light of the democratic, bureaucratic and new public management theory. - Reproduced. Public administration Yuval, Fany American Journal of Public Administration 58422 58422 58422 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 62, Issue no: 3 AR58867 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR