01326pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002500040245007900065260000900144300001300153362000800166520086900174650002601043700002101069700002601090773005201116180718b2008   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWalle, Steven Van de  aTrust in the public sector: is there any evidence for a long-term decline?  c2008  ap.47-64.  aMar  aConcerns with declining public trust in government have become a permanent element of the contemporary political discourse. This concern also extends to levels of citizens' trust in the public administration and public services. Trust is said to be declining, and this decline is generally seen as detrimental to public service delivery. In this article, we examine the main elements in this discussion, review the existing international survey data and summarize the main findings for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Citizens' trust in the public sector is found to fluctuate, and the data generally do not show consistently declining levels of trust. Furthermore, in some countries there simply are insufficient data to come to any conclusions at all about time trends in citizen trust in the public sector. - Reproduced.  aPublic administration  aBouckaert, Geert  aRoosbroek, Steven Van  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences