The Role of Trust in Channels of Strategic Communication for Building Civil Society

Botan, Carl H.; Taylor, Maureen

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03017.x

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“…The decline of local trust has been coupled with a rising number of public protests targeted at local officials and institutions. Such a pattern of political trust has also been reported in studies of countries such as Bosnia (Botan and Taylor, 2005), Bolivia (Hiskey and Seligson, 2003) and the Dominican Republic (Finkel et al ., 2000).…”

Section: Political Trust In National and Local Governmentssupporting

confidence: 66%

The Variant Effect of Decentralization on Trust in National and Local Governments in Asia

Tang

Huhe

2014

Political Studies

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This research responds to the need to study trust in the national government (national trust) and in local government (local trust) simultaneously and investigates how decentralization reshapes political attitudes toward different layers of government. The argument is that decentralization contributes to variant patterns of political trust, defined by the relative strength of national trust and local trust, across countries. A multilevel analysis of East Asian countries shows that decentralization nurtures local trust in democracies, but decreases local trust in autocracies. Further, decentralization boosts national trust in autocracies, but not in democracies. Such a variant effect of decentralization sheds light on regime stability and viability in democratic and authoritarian countries.

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confidence: 66%

The Variant Effect of Decentralization on Trust in National and Local Governments in Asia

Tang

Huhe

2014

Political Studies

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“…Snyder and Stromberg (2010) find that lower media coverage of politicians actually lowers the accountability of elected officials to their constituencies, which would have obvious implications for citizens' trust in their representatives and government institutions. Indeed, academic studies demonstrate that independent media coverage has many important outcomes, including increasing citizens' political knowledge and voter turnout (Leeson, 2008), helping to build trust and overcome ethnic tensions in postconflict societies (Botan & Taylor, 2005;Pardew, 2000), curbing corruption in public institutions (Chandler, 2006, Eigen, 2002, and increasing the likelihood of successful economic reform in transitioning countries (Leeson & Coyne, 2007). These studies demonstrate an important link between independent media and citizens' trust in public institutions and actors.…”

Section: Media and Information Provisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Independence and Trust in NGOs

Lee

Johnson

Prakash

2010

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Why do levels of public trust in NGOs vary across postcommunist countries? How does media independence influence these trust levels? The authors begin from the premise that citizens develop trust in NGOs when they believe that NGOs function according to their normative expectations and they receive regular information about NGOs’ activities. Media has a crucial role in both these regards, especially in the context of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, where the NGO sector is in a nascent stage and citizens lack prior experiences with NGOs as activist organizations and providers of public goods and services. First, media can provide information about NGO activities that enables citizens to develop opinions about individual NGOs and NGOs as a category of social actors. Second, media can serve as a vehicle to monitor the activities of NGOs and make them accountable. However, media may have its own biases and provide misleading information about NGOs. Thus the authors expect that media independence is associated with trust in NGOs. They analyze the relationship between NGO trust and media independence using a time-series and cross-section panel of 28 postcommunist countries from 1997 to 2006, controlling for a range of domestic and international factors that might influence trust in the NGO sector. Our analysis suggests that independent media is positively associated with trust in NGOs.

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“…The mainstream media (TV, radio, print newspapers) are typically not perceived as reliable because they are often pro-government and are restricted through state ownership, licensing and/or censorship. Print media that are not state-owned often self-censor knowing that reporting on controversial and sensitive topics (e.g., corruption, incompetence) or overly criticizing the authorities will lead to government fines, revocation of licenses or worse [42]. In many cases, private owners of media are pro-government or at least not in opposition to government or the ruling party.…”

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confidence: 94%

Media use during conflicts

Kavanaugh

Sheetz

Sandoval‐Almazán

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research

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Public access to accurate and reliable information is fundamental to democracy and democratic decision-making. In conditions of uncertainty and imperfect information, such as during political crises or controversial elections in emerging democracies, reliable information is often difficult to obtain. We investigated the uses and gratifications obtained from diverse information sources available to citizens during the months leading up to Presidential elections in Mexico in July 2012. Uses and gratifications theory states that information seeking is one of several primary needs or motivations for using different media. Reliability of information sources is key to gratification of this need. We conducted a survey about diverse information sources and their reliability with an opportunity sample of young adults at a public state university in Mexico. Our findings indicate that face-to-face and telephone communication with members of a respondent's social network, as well as social media and online news sites, were the most reliable sources of information about the elections. Television broadcasting, especially from government channels, was the least reliable. These results suggest that in conditions of relative uncertainty and imperfect information, social media and alternative (online) news sources about political events are essential to sustaining an informed public.

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The Role of Trust in Channels of Strategic Communication for Building Civil Society

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

The Variant Effect of Decentralization on Trust in National and Local Governments in Asia

The Variant Effect of Decentralization on Trust in National and Local Governments in Asia

Media Independence and Trust in NGOs

Media use during conflicts

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