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100			_aWalle, Steven Van de
245			_aTrust in the public sector: is there any evidence for a long-term decline?
260			_c2008
300			_ap.47-64.
362			_aMar
520			_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.
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aBouckaert, Geert
700			_aRoosbroek, Steven Van
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
908			_aN
909			_a77857
999			_c77857 _d77857